Trending Chemists in Spain — the 7 days to 26 October 2026

1

Pope Francis

266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)

📚 51 citations 📰 140 stories · 13 sources

13,640
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Marie Curie

Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)

📚 72 citations 📰 7 stories · 3 sources

12,613
views

3

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

📚 55 citations

9,320
views

4

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)

📚 54 citations 📰 7 stories · 2 sources

7,788
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5

Dolph Lundgren

Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)

📚 17 citations

3,865
views

6

Margaret Thatcher

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990

📚 53 citations 📰 54 stories · 12 sources

3,795
views

7

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

Spanish politician and chemist (1951-2019)

📚 18 citations

3,538
views

8

Isaac Asimov

American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)

📚 80 citations

3,379
views

9

Claudia Elena Vásquez

Colombian model and former beauty queen (born 1974)

3,216
views

10

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

📚 67 citations

2,874
views

11

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Spanish scientist (1852-1934)

📚 62 citations

2,528
views

12

Antoine Lavoisier

French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)

📚 37 citations

1,954
views

13

Alexander Fleming

Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)

📚 38 citations 📰 2 stories · 2 sources

1,926
views

14

Angela Merkel

chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)

📚 133 citations 📰 36 stories · 10 sources

1,909
views

15

Niels Bohr

Danish physicist (1885–1962)

📚 74 citations

1,805
views

16

Alfred Nobel

Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)

📚 33 citations 📰 9 stories · 3 sources

1,754
views

17

Rosalind Franklin

British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)

📚 26 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

1,753
views

18

John Dalton

British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)

📚 26 citations

1,637
views

19

The Joker

fictional character throughout the DC Universe

📚 12 citations

1,534
views

20

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist (1834–1907)

📚 34 citations

1,523
views

21

Carlos Blanco Pérez

Spanish writer

📚 5 citations

1,518
views

22

Mario Molina

Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)

📚 27 citations

1,511
views

23

Ernest Rutherford

New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)

📚 46 citations

1,483
views

24

Walter White

fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad

📚 9 citations 📰 7 stories · 2 sources

1,445
views

25

Michael Faraday

British scientist (1791–1867)

📚 49 citations

1,325
views

26

Severo Ochoa

Spanish physician

📚 36 citations

1,275
views

27

Valery Legasov

Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)

📚 8 citations

1,111
views

28

Lise Meitner

Austrian-Swedish physicist

📚 38 citations

1,094
views

29

Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz

Mexican chemical engineer

1,035
views

30

Margarita Salas

Spanish biochemist (1938-2019)

📚 44 citations

1,034
views

31

Avicenna

Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)

📚 44 citations

1,002
views

32

Ana María Lajusticia

Spanish chemist

📚 5 citations

979
views

33

Paracelsus

Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)

📚 30 citations

921
views

34

Pierre Curie

French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)

📚 49 citations

827
views

35

Lex Luthor

fictional character in DC Comics

📚 5 citations 📰 2 stories · 2 sources

822
views

36

Lionel Dahmer

American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer

📚 6 citations

764
views

37

Poison Ivy

fictional character throughout the DC Universe

📚 6 citations 📰 6 stories · 4 sources

756
views

38

Ivan Pavlov

Russian physiologist (1849–1936)

📚 45 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

755
views

39

Thomas Midgley

American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)

📚 15 citations

743
views

40

Alessandro Volta

Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)

📚 30 citations

743
views

41

Albertus Magnus

German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)

📚 40 citations

681
views

42

Irène Joliot-Curie

French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)

📚 40 citations

677
views

43

James Watt

British engineer (1736–1819)

📚 37 citations

674
views

44

Luis E. Miramontes Cárdenas

Mexican chemist (1925–2072)

📚 1 citation

668
views

45

Luis Federico Leloir

Argentine biochemist

📚 30 citations

667
views

46

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

French naturalist (1744-1829)

📚 38 citations

616
views

47

Rocío Nahle García

Mexican politician

📚 1 citation

614
views

48

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)

📚 36 citations

589
views

49

Carlos López Otín

Spanish researcher

571
views

50

Linus Pauling

American scientist (1901–1994)

📚 70 citations

569
views

51

James Watson

American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)

📚 61 citations

566
views

52

Mariano Barbacid

Spanish biologist

📚 13 citations

565
views

53

Bernardo Houssay

Argentine physician (1887–1971)

📚 33 citations

555
views

54

Louis Slotin

Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)

📚 5 citations

546
views

55

Primo Levi

Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)

📚 39 citations

535
views

56

Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz

fictional character on The Big Bang Theory

📚 3 citations

527
views

57

Robert Boyle

Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor (1627-1691)

📚 34 citations

513
views

58

Robert Ley

German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)

📚 26 citations

476
views

59

César Milstein

Argentine biochemist (1927–2002)

📚 32 citations

466
views

60

Carlos Núñez Cortés

Argentine musician

453
views

61

Miguel Cortés Miranda

Mexican bacteriologist, parasitologist, and serial killer (1984–2025)

450
views

62

Oliver Sacks

British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)

📚 33 citations

449
views

63

Robert Koch

German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)

📚 43 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

449
views

64

Ian Gibbons

American based British biochemist

445
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65

Scarecrow

fictional character in DC Comics

📚 3 citations

445
views

66

Bane

fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain

📚 2 citations

438
views

67

Albert Wesker

fictional character from Resident Evil

📚 1 citation

431
views

68

Francis Crick

British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004)

📚 30 citations

385
views

69

Amedeo Avogadro

Italian scientist

📚 22 citations

373
views

70

Julieta Lanteri

Argentine pharmacologist and suffragist (1873–1932)

📚 4 citations

362
views

71

Albert Hofmann

Swiss chemist (1906–2008)

📚 23 citations

362
views

72

Elena Ceaușescu

Romanian politician (1919–1989)

📚 8 citations

340
views

73

Pilar Goya Laza

researcher

336
views

74

Henry Cavendish

English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)

📚 21 citations

332
views

75

Karen Wetterhahn

American chemist (1948–1997)

📚 2 citations

329
views

76

Henry Pym

fictional character in Marvel Comics

📚 1 citation

327
views

77

Fritz Haber

German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)

📚 33 citations

323
views

78

Tu Youyou

Chinese medical scientist

📚 17 citations

318
views

79

Elias Canetti

Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)

📚 41 citations

316
views

80

José Giral

Spanish politician (1879-1962)

📚 18 citations

314
views

81

Pompeu Fabra

Catalan linguist (1868–1948)

📚 25 citations

303
views

82

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Italian neurologist (1909–2012)

📚 50 citations

300
views

83

Alexander Oparin

Soviet biochemist (1894-1980)

📚 27 citations

300
views

84

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)

📚 42 citations

285
views

85

Osvaldo Gross

Argentinian cook and businessperson

279
views

86

Evangelina Villegas

Mexican biochemist

276
views

87

Josu Jon Imaz

Spanish chemist and politician

274
views

88

Gustav Kirchhoff

German physicist (1824–1887)

📚 30 citations

272
views

89

Jorge Tadeo Lozano

President of Colombia (1771-1816)

📚 4 citations

270
views

90

Henri Nestlé

businessman (1814-2019)

📚 10 citations

265
views

91

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch

📚 25 citations

264
views

92

Eugenio Berríos

Chilean biochemist

263
views

93

Antoine Henri Becquerel

French physicist (1852–1908)

📚 35 citations

263
views

94

Gilbert N. Lewis

American physical chemist

📚 20 citations

261
views

95

Ludwig Boltzmann

Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)

📚 29 citations

256
views

96

Henry Moseley

English physicist

📚 17 citations

248
views

97

Alberto Granado

Argentine-Cuban biochemistry doctor, writer, scientist and traveling companion of Che Guevara (1922-2011)

📚 10 citations

247
views

98

Jöns Jacob Berzelius

Swedish chemist (1779–1848)

📚 38 citations

244
views

99

María González Veracruz

Spanish politician

📚 4 citations

243
views

100

Fernando Martín Álvarez

Spanish football executive

📚 3 citations

241
views