The Most Famous
Physicists from Pakistan
Trending Physicists from Pakistan This Week
The top 10 Physicists from Pakistan trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1
Abdus Salam
1926 - 1996
Trending in Chinese (#26) Wikipedia (2,238 views, on Apr 11).
This page contains a list of the greatest Pakistani Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 4 of which were born in Pakistan. This makes Pakistan the birth place of the 27th most number of Physicists behind South Africa and Australia.
Top 4 Pakistani Physicists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Pakistani Physicists of all time. This list of famous Pakistani Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1910 - 1995
HPI 71.0686 langsSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who is most famous for his discovery of the Chandrasekhar limit. This limit...Read moreShow less
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who is most famous for his discovery of the Chandrasekhar limit. This limit states that a star's mass cannot exceed 1.4 solar masses before it collapses into a white dwarf.
- #2
Abdus Salam
1926 - 1996
HPI 69.5382 langsAbdus Salam is most famous for being the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize in Physics.
- #3
Yash Pal
1926 - 2017
HPI 46.2815 langsIndian physicist (1926–2017)
- #4
Nergis Mavalvala
b. 1968
HPI 39.4019 langsPakistani-American quantum astrophysicist
Overlapping Lives
Which Physicists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Physicists since 1700.
