Trending Chemists in Germany this year
The 100 most-viewed chemists this year on Wikipedia (Germany). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Angela Merkel.
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40,733
Total Views (this year)
1
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
6,975
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2
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
2,781
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3
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
1,782
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4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
1,771
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5
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
1,658
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6
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
1,460
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views
7
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
1,371
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views
8
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
German chemist, science journalist and television presenter
1,307
views
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9
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
1,002
views
views
10
Friedrich Bayer
German businessman (1825–1880)
925
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11
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
822
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views
12
Frauke Petry
German politician
787
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views
13
Johanna Budwig
German biochemist (1908–2003)
757
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14
Joachim Sauer
German chemist and former Second Gentleman of Germany
743
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15
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
590
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16
Fritz Vahrenholt
German politician and climate change denier (born 1949)
572
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17
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
551
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18
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
528
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views
19
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
506
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views
20
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
497
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views
21
Yasmin Fahimi
German politician
491
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views
22
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
419
views
views
23
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
395
views
views
24
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
392
views
views
25
Sebastian Lege
German chef and TV personality
391
views
views
26
Otto Ambros
German chemist (1901-1990)
384
views
views
27
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
369
views
views
28
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
358
views
views
29
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
315
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views
30
Justus von Liebig
German chemist (1803-1873)
312
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views
31
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
299
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views
32
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
292
views
views
33
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
271
views
views
34
Bas Eickhout
Dutch politician
243
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views
35
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
242
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views
36
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
219
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views
37
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
217
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38
Rafik Schami
Syrian-German writer and chemist (born 1946)
212
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39
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
208
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views
40
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
207
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views
41
Klaus Soehring
205
views
views
42
Jerzy Buzek
Prime Minister of Poland (r. 1997–2001); President of the European Parliament (r. 2009–2012)
193
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43
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
188
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44
Carl Bosch
German chemical engineer (1874–1940)
188
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45
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
183
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46
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
178
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47
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
178
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48
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
176
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49
Michael Braungart
German chemist
173
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50
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
171
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51
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
169
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52
August Oetker
German food scientist (1862-1918)
163
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53
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
154
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views
54
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
150
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views
55
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
149
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views
56
Magnus von Braun
German engineer (1919–2003)
147
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57
Wolfgang A. Herrmann
German chemist
144
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58
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer
144
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59
Otmar von Verschuer
German military physician, geneticist and biochemist (1896-1969)
137
views
views
60
Samuel Hahnemann
German physician known for creating homeopathy
131
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61
Robert Havemann
German chemist and dissident (1910–1982)
129
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62
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
128
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views
63
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
118
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64
Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
117
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65
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
115
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66
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
110
views
views
67
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
108
views
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68
Rudolf Wild
German businessman (1904–1995)
108
views
views
69
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
106
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70
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
104
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views
71
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
102
views
views
72
Clara Immerwahr
German chemist (1870-1915)
100
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73
Wilhelm Ostwald
Baltic German chemist (1853–1932)
98
views
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74
Karina Reiss
German biology researcher (1974-)
97
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75
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
96
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76
Georgius Agricola
German mineralogist (1494-1555)
96
views
views
77
Robert Bunsen
German chemist (1811-1899)
95
views
views
78
Richard F. Gordon
American astronaut (1929–2017)
94
views
views
79
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
93
views
views
80
Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Israeli intellectual (1903-1994)
93
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views
81
Leo Rudolf Raubal
Adolf Hitler's nephew (1906–1977)
93
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82
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
93
views
views
83
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
91
views
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84
Carl Duisberg
German chemist (1861–1935)
91
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85
Hans Streeck
90
views
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86
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)
89
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87
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
89
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88
Stefan Hockertz
88
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views
89
Heyo Klaus Kroemer
German pharmacologist and pharmacist
88
views
views
90
Christian Rätsch
German ethnopharmacologist, anthropologist, author (1957–2022)
87
views
views
91
Max Joseph von Pettenkofer
Bavarian chemist and hygienist (1818–1901)
85
views
views
92
Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)
83
views
views
93
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
81
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views
94
Eugène Schueller
French chemist and businessman (1881–1957)
78
views
views
95
Alfredo Salafia
Sicilian professor of chemistry, and also a noted embalmer and taxidermist (1869-1933)
78
views
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96
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
78
views
views
97
Udo Pollmer
German chemist
77
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98
Carl Auer von Welsbach
Austrian scientist and inventor (1858-1929)
76
views
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99
Stefan Hell
director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany
75
views
views
100
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted
Danish physical chemist (1879–1947)
74
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