Trending Chemists in Germany — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed chemists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Angela Merkel. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
535,679
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
67,103
views
views
2
Frauke Petry
German politician
41,918
views
views
3
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
27,310
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
22,499
views
views
5
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
18,714
views
views
6
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
15,463
views
views
7
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
14,692
views
views
8
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
14,255
views
views
9
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
13,205
views
views
10
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
12,952
views
views
11
Walter Osswald
Portuguese chemist
11,347
views
views
12
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
German chemist, science journalist and television presenter
10,295
views
views
13
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
8,663
views
views
14
Yasmin Fahimi
German politician
8,361
views
views
15
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
8,334
views
views
16
Fritz Preuss
German chemist and politician
7,502
views
views
17
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
7,292
views
views
18
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
7,127
views
views
19
Günther Tölg
German chemist
6,586
views
views
20
Sebastian Lege
German chef and TV personality
6,405
views
views
21
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
6,330
views
views
22
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
5,945
views
views
23
Joachim Sauer
German chemist and former Second Gentleman of Germany
5,912
views
views
24
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
5,865
views
views
25
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
5,576
views
views
26
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
5,502
views
views
27
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
5,465
views
views
28
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
5,395
views
views
29
Harald Ringstorff
German politician (1939–2020)
5,012
views
views
30
Johann von Löwenstern-Kunckel
Swedish noble and chemist
4,740
views
views
31
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
4,327
views
views
32
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
4,284
views
views
33
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
4,132
views
views
34
Leo Rudolf Raubal
Adolf Hitler's nephew (1906–1977)
4,039
views
views
35
Justus von Liebig
German chemist (1803-1873)
3,813
views
views
36
Rudolf Wild
German businessman (1904–1995)
3,611
views
views
37
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
3,215
views
views
38
Otmar von Verschuer
German military physician, geneticist and biochemist (1896-1969)
3,166
views
views
39
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
3,162
views
views
40
Fritz Vahrenholt
German politician and climate change denier (born 1949)
3,077
views
views
41
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
3,074
views
views
42
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
3,067
views
views
43
Carl Bosch
German chemical engineer (1874–1940)
2,909
views
views
44
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
2,870
views
views
45
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
2,850
views
views
46
Robert Havemann
German chemist and dissident (1910–1982)
2,830
views
views
47
Rafik Schami
Syrian-German writer and chemist (born 1946)
2,772
views
views
48
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
2,596
views
views
49
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
2,593
views
views
50
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
2,517
views
views
51
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
2,513
views
views
52
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
2,509
views
views
53
Karina Reiss
German biology researcher (1974-)
2,429
views
views
54
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
2,407
views
views
55
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
2,378
views
views
56
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
2,266
views
views
57
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
2,220
views
views
58
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
2,113
views
views
59
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
2,096
views
views
60
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
2,005
views
views
61
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
1,965
views
views
62
August Oetker
German food scientist (1862-1918)
1,953
views
views
63
Rainer Kraft
German politician
1,941
views
views
64
Christian Rätsch
German ethnopharmacologist, anthropologist, author (1957–2022)
1,928
views
views
65
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer
1,926
views
views
66
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
1,882
views
views
67
Samuel Hahnemann
German physician known for creating homeopathy
1,880
views
views
68
Elena Ceaușescu
Romanian politician (1919–1989)
1,856
views
views
69
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
1,841
views
views
70
Markus Blocher
Swiss entrepreneur
1,780
views
views
71
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
1,729
views
views
72
Benjamin List
German chemist (1968-)
1,723
views
views
73
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
1,695
views
views
74
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
1,656
views
views
75
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
1,609
views
views
76
Clara Immerwahr
German chemist (1870-1915)
1,589
views
views
77
Hugo Henkel
German industrialist, Nazi party member (1881-1952)
1,563
views
views
78
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
1,561
views
views
79
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
1,553
views
views
80
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
1,538
views
views
81
Johanna Budwig
German biochemist (1908–2003)
1,529
views
views
82
Karamba Diaby
German politician
1,510
views
views
83
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
1,470
views
views
84
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
1,459
views
views
85
Johann Friedrich Böttger
Saxon alchemist (1682-1719)
1,409
views
views
86
Carl Auer von Welsbach
Austrian scientist and inventor (1858-1929)
1,389
views
views
87
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
1,385
views
views
88
Robert Bunsen
German chemist (1811-1899)
1,374
views
views
89
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)
1,372
views
views
90
Emil Fischer
German chemist (1852–1919)
1,365
views
views
91
Markus Kamieth
CEO of BASF, German manager
1,361
views
views
92
Wolfgang A. Herrmann
German chemist
1,337
views
views
93
Friedrich Bayer
German businessman (1825–1880)
1,313
views
views
94
Heinz Riesenhuber
German politician (CDU)
1,266
views
views
95
Karl Landsteiner
Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1,248
views
views
96
Georgius Agricola
German physician and mineralogist (1494-1555)
1,245
views
views
97
Alexander S. Kekulé
German virologist and former child actor
1,232
views
views
98
Friedrich Hund
German physicist (1896-1997)
1,224
views
views
99
Stefan Hockertz
1,214
views
views
100
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
1,204
views
views
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