Who are the most influential scientists alive today?
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American theoretical physicist and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, renowned for his contributions to string theory and quantum field theory.
2 questions · 1 categories · As of Nov 12, 2026
| Categories | Category rank | Questions | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Science & Academia | #19of 220 | 2 | 46.9 |
Brands named in the same answers as Edward Witten in the last four weeks, counted in answers.
| Brand | Answers naming the brand | Named alongside |
|---|---|---|
| Geoffrey Hinton | 14 | Yann LeCun (11), Yoshua Bengio (10), Demis Hassabis (9) |
| Carl Sagan | 7 | Neil deGrasse Tyson (5), David Attenborough (5), Bill Nye (4) |
| Albert Einstein | 7 | Marie Curie (6), Galileo Galilei (6), Charles Darwin (6) |
| Yoshua Bengio | 11 | Geoffrey Hinton (10), Yann LeCun (9), Demis Hassabis (8) |
| Demis Hassabis | 10 | Geoffrey Hinton (9), Yann LeCun (8), Yoshua Bengio (8) |
| Yann LeCun | 11 | Geoffrey Hinton (11), Yoshua Bengio (9), Demis Hassabis (8) |
| Sir Isaac Newton | 6 | Albert Einstein (6), Marie Curie (6), Galileo Galilei (6) |
| Galileo Galilei | 6 | Albert Einstein (6), Marie Curie (6), Charles Darwin (6) |
| Charles Darwin | 6 | Albert Einstein (6), Marie Curie (6), Galileo Galilei (6) |
| Marie Curie | 6 | Albert Einstein (6), Galileo Galilei (6), Charles Darwin (6) |
| Thomas Piketty | 6 | Judith Butler (6), Daron Acemoglu (5), Noam Chomsky (3) |
| Judith Butler | 9 | Daron Acemoglu (6), Thomas Piketty (6), Noam Chomsky (4) |
| Daron Acemoglu | 6 | Judith Butler (6), Thomas Piketty (5), Geoffrey Hinton (3) |
| Ilya Sutskever | 4 | Yann LeCun (4), Demis Hassabis (4), Yoshua Bengio (4) |
| Fei-Fei Li | 8 | Yann LeCun (7), Geoffrey Hinton (7), Yoshua Bengio (6) |
| Louis Pasteur | 6 | Albert Einstein (6), Marie Curie (6), Galileo Galilei (6) |
| Walter C. Willett | 4 | Tim Berners-Lee (4), Jane Goodall (3), Robert S. Langer (3) |
| David Attenborough | 5 | Carl Sagan (5), Neil deGrasse Tyson (5), Bill Nye (4) |
| Edward Witten | 5 | Tim Berners-Lee (3), Robert S. Langer (3), Jennifer Doudna (3) |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | 6 | Carl Sagan (5), David Attenborough (5), Bill Nye (4) |
| Dario Amodei | 5 | Yann LeCun (5), Demis Hassabis (5), Geoffrey Hinton (5) |
| Tim Berners-Lee | 6 | Walter C. Willett (4), Jane Goodall (4), Robert S. Langer (4) |
| Nikola Tesla | 4 | Albert Einstein (4), Marie Curie (4), Galileo Galilei (4) |
| Jane Goodall | 6 | Tim Berners-Lee (4), Walter C. Willett (3), Robert S. Langer (3) |
| Andrew Ng | 4 | Yann LeCun (4), Demis Hassabis (4), Geoffrey Hinton (4) |
| Jennifer Doudna | 6 | Demis Hassabis (5), Yoshua Bengio (4), Geoffrey Hinton (4) |
| Robert S. Langer | 4 | Tim Berners-Lee (4), Walter C. Willett (3), Edward Witten (3) |
| Ada Lovelace | 4 | Albert Einstein (4), Marie Curie (4), Galileo Galilei (4) |
| Bill Nye | 4 | Carl Sagan (4), Neil deGrasse Tyson (4), David Attenborough (4) |
| Noam Chomsky | 7 | Judith Butler (4), Tim Berners-Lee (3), Thomas Piketty (3) |
Sites the answers naming this brand cited in the last four weeks. Counts are citing answers.
| Rank | Source | Citing answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | superscholar.org | 3 |
| 2 | research.com | 3 |
| 3 | bigthink.com | 2 |
| 4 | stem.org.uk | 2 |
| 5 | superprof.com | 2 |
| 6 | topexecrecruiting.com | 2 |
| 7 | academicinfluence.com | 1 |
| 8 | bria.com.ph | 1 |
| 9 | curiousmatrix.com | 1 |
| 10 | discoverwalks.com | 1 |
For the brand's best questions: of each surface's 1 answers, how many named it.
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| 1Who are the most influential scientists alive today? | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2Who are the leading academics shaping modern thought? | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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