Trending Chemists in Spain — the 7 days to 25 October 2026

1

Pope Francis

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

📚 51 citations 📰 167 stories · 10 sources

14,091
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Marie Curie

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

📚 72 citations 📰 8 stories · 3 sources

12,063
views

3

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

📚 55 citations

9,377
views

4

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)

📚 54 citations 📰 7 stories · 2 sources

7,592
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5

Margaret Thatcher

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990

📚 53 citations 📰 58 stories · 16 sources

3,741
views

6

Dolph Lundgren

Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)

📚 17 citations 📰 6 stories · 3 sources

3,575
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7

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

Spanish politician and chemist (1951-2019)

📚 18 citations

3,491
views

8

Isaac Asimov

American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)

📚 80 citations

3,170
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9

Claudia Elena Vásquez

Colombian model and former beauty queen (born 1974)

3,025
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10

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

📚 67 citations

2,844
views

11

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Spanish scientist (1852-1934)

📚 62 citations

2,656
views

12

Antoine Lavoisier

French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)

📚 37 citations

1,933
views

13

Alexander Fleming

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

📚 38 citations

1,880
views

14

Angela Merkel

chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)

📚 133 citations 📰 23 stories · 4 sources

1,815
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15

Niels Bohr

Danish physicist (1885–1962)

📚 74 citations

1,783
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16

Rosalind Franklin

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

📚 26 citations

1,724
views

17

Alfred Nobel

Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)

📚 33 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

1,698
views

18

John Dalton

British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)

📚 26 citations

1,627
views

19

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist (1834–1907)

📚 34 citations

1,490
views

20

Carlos Blanco Pérez

Spanish writer

📚 5 citations

1,454
views

21

Ernest Rutherford

New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)

📚 46 citations

1,434
views

22

The Joker

fictional character throughout the DC Universe

📚 12 citations

1,433
views

23

Mario Molina

Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)

📚 27 citations

1,414
views

24

Walter White

fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad

📚 9 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

1,371
views

25

Michael Faraday

British scientist (1791–1867)

📚 49 citations

1,322
views

26

Severo Ochoa

Spanish physician

📚 36 citations

1,250
views

27

Margarita Salas

Spanish biochemist (1938-2019)

📚 44 citations

1,123
views

28

Valery Legasov

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

📚 8 citations

1,115
views

29

Ana María Lajusticia

Spanish chemist

📚 5 citations

1,100
views

30

Lise Meitner

Austrian-Swedish physicist

📚 38 citations

1,036
views

31

Avicenna

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

📚 44 citations

985
views

32

Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz

Mexican chemical engineer

974
views

33

Paracelsus

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

📚 30 citations

876
views

34

Thomas Midgley

American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)

📚 15 citations

841
views

35

Pierre Curie

French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)

📚 49 citations

780
views

36

Lex Luthor

fictional character in DC Comics

📚 5 citations 📰 2 stories · 2 sources

775
views

37

Ivan Pavlov

Russian physiologist (1849–1936)

📚 45 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

739
views

38

Alessandro Volta

Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)

📚 30 citations

729
views

39

Lionel Dahmer

American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer

📚 6 citations

719
views

40

Poison Ivy

fictional character throughout the DC Universe

📚 6 citations 📰 14 stories · 13 sources

680
views

41

Irène Joliot-Curie

French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)

📚 40 citations

662
views

42

Luis Federico Leloir

Argentine biochemist

📚 30 citations

651
views

43

Albertus Magnus

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

📚 40 citations

648
views

44

Luis E. Miramontes Cárdenas

Mexican chemist (1925–2072)

📚 1 citation

645
views

45

James Watt

British engineer (1736–1819)

📚 37 citations

644
views

46

Rocío Nahle García

Mexican politician

📚 1 citation

622
views

47

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

French naturalist (1744-1829)

📚 38 citations

601
views

48

Albert Szent-Györgyi

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

📚 36 citations

584
views

49

Mariano Barbacid

Spanish biologist

📚 13 citations

555
views

50

Linus Pauling

American scientist (1901–1994)

📚 70 citations

547
views

51

James Watson

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

📚 61 citations

546
views

52

Bernardo Houssay

Argentine physician (1887–1971)

📚 33 citations

538
views

53

Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz

fictional character on The Big Bang Theory

📚 3 citations

511
views

54

Primo Levi

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

📚 39 citations

507
views

55

Louis Slotin

Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)

📚 5 citations

503
views

56

Robert Boyle

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

📚 34 citations

502
views

57

Robert Ley

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

📚 26 citations

458
views

58

César Milstein

Argentine biochemist (1927–2002)

📚 32 citations

450
views

59

Robert Koch

German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)

📚 43 citations 📰 4 stories · 3 sources

432
views

60

Carlos Núñez Cortés

Argentine musician

423
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61

Bane

fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain

📚 2 citations

422
views

62

Oliver Sacks

British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)

📚 33 citations

414
views

63

Miguel Cortés Miranda

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

413
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64

Albert Wesker

fictional character from Resident Evil

📚 1 citation

406
views

65

Carlos López Otín

Spanish researcher

391
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66

Scarecrow

fictional character in DC Comics

📚 3 citations

387
views

67

Ian Gibbons

American based British biochemist

384
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68

Francis Crick

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

📚 30 citations

378
views

69

Amedeo Avogadro

Italian scientist

📚 22 citations

357
views

70

Julieta Lanteri

Argentine pharmacologist and suffragist (1873–1932)

📚 4 citations

355
views

71

Éleuthère Irénée du Pont

French-American chemist

📚 11 citations

348
views

72

Elena Ceaușescu

Romanian politician (1919–1989)

📚 8 citations

339
views

73

Albert Hofmann

Swiss chemist (1906–2008)

📚 23 citations

337
views

74

Pilar Goya Laza

researcher

336
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75

Tu Youyou

Chinese medical scientist

📚 17 citations

320
views

76

Fritz Haber

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

📚 33 citations

319
views

77

José Giral

Spanish politician (1879-1962)

📚 18 citations

312
views

78

Henry Pym

fictional character in Marvel Comics

📚 1 citation

308
views

79

Henry Cavendish

English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)

📚 21 citations

304
views

80

Elias Canetti

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

📚 41 citations

295
views

81

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Italian neurologist (1909–2012)

📚 50 citations

289
views

82

Pompeu Fabra

Catalan linguist (1868–1948)

📚 25 citations

288
views

83

Eugenio Berríos

Chilean biochemist

285
views

84

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)

📚 42 citations

280
views

85

Karen Wetterhahn

American chemist (1948–1997)

📚 2 citations

280
views

86

Evangelina Villegas

Mexican biochemist

278
views

87

Josu Jon Imaz

Spanish chemist and politician

278
views

88

Alexander Oparin

Soviet biochemist (1894-1980)

📚 27 citations

276
views

89

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch

📚 25 citations

271
views

90

Jorge Tadeo Lozano

President of Colombia (1771-1816)

📚 4 citations

270
views

91

Henri Nestlé

businessman (1814-2019)

📚 10 citations

261
views

92

Osvaldo Gross

Argentinian cook and businessperson

258
views

93

Fernando Martín Álvarez

Spanish football executive

📚 3 citations

254
views

94

Antoine Henri Becquerel

French physicist (1852–1908)

📚 35 citations

254
views

95

Gustav Kirchhoff

German physicist (1824–1887)

📚 30 citations

251
views

96

Gilbert N. Lewis

American physical chemist

📚 20 citations

251
views

97

Otto Heinrich Warburg

German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)

📚 22 citations

248
views

98

Jöns Jacob Berzelius

Swedish chemist (1779–1848)

📚 38 citations

244
views

99

Pedro Rosselló

Seventh Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

📚 3 citations

241
views

100

Ludwig Boltzmann

Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)

📚 29 citations

240
views