Trending Chemists in France — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed chemists on Wikipedia, September 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Pope Francis. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
484,192
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
123,352
views
views
2
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
40,209
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
25,971
views
views
4
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
16,478
views
views
5
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
16,174
views
views
6
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
14,862
views
views
7
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
12,816
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
12,514
views
views
9
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
10,558
views
views
10
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
10,220
views
views
11
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
6,805
views
views
12
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
6,220
views
views
13
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
5,852
views
views
14
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
5,336
views
views
15
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
5,154
views
views
16
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
5,084
views
views
17
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
5,071
views
views
18
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
4,870
views
views
19
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
4,626
views
views
20
Claude Allègre
French politician and geochemist (1937–2025)
4,344
views
views
21
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
4,208
views
views
22
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
4,114
views
views
23
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
4,111
views
views
24
Vincent Reynouard
French Holocaust denier
4,057
views
views
25
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
3,884
views
views
26
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
3,770
views
views
27
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
3,755
views
views
28
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
3,402
views
views
29
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,267
views
views
30
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
3,180
views
views
31
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
3,077
views
views
32
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
3,000
views
views
33
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
French agronomist, naturalist, nutritionist, and hygienist; promoter of the potato as a food source in Europe (1737-1813)
2,968
views
views
34
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
2,930
views
views
35
Claude Bernard
French physiologist (1813-1878)
2,920
views
views
36
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
2,795
views
views
37
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
2,670
views
views
38
Eugène Schueller
French chemist and businessman (1881–1957)
2,493
views
views
39
Elio Di Rupo
Belgian politician (born 1951)
2,417
views
views
40
Jessie Inchauspé
French biochemist
2,414
views
views
41
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
2,361
views
views
42
François-Vincent Raspail
French chemist, naturalist, physician, physiologist, attorney, and socialist politician (1794-1878)
2,337
views
views
43
Antoine Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
2,209
views
views
44
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
2,181
views
views
45
Gaspard Monge
French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818)
2,121
views
views
46
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
2,070
views
views
47
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
1,999
views
views
48
Bernard Palissy
French potter and engineer (1510-1590)
1,906
views
views
49
Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist and politician (1827-1907)
1,900
views
views
50
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
1,851
views
views
51
Louis Daguerre
French scientist, artist and photographer (1787–1851)
1,848
views
views
52
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
1,816
views
views
53
Frauke Petry
German politician
1,782
views
views
54
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
1,780
views
views
55
Jacques Bergier
French writer and scientist (1912–1978)
1,710
views
views
56
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
1,688
views
views
57
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
1,672
views
views
58
Jean-René Dufort
Canadian journalist, television presenter and radio host
1,641
views
views
59
Jacques Monod
French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate (1910-1976)
1,609
views
views
60
Elena Ceaușescu
Romanian politician (1919–1989)
1,605
views
views
61
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
1,578
views
views
62
Jean-Baptiste Perrin
French physicist (1870–1942)
1,558
views
views
63
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
1,503
views
views
64
Henri Laborit
French physician, writer and philosopher (1914-1995)
1,438
views
views
65
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
1,379
views
views
66
Alain Mérieux
French businessman
1,358
views
views
67
Josiane Serre
French chemist (1922-2004)
1,351
views
views
68
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
1,223
views
views
69
Mary-Anne Paulzzze Lavoisier
French chemist and painter (1758-1836)
1,195
views
views
70
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
1,193
views
views
71
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
1,189
views
views
72
Sophie Berthelot
French chemist (1837-1907)
1,168
views
views
73
Louis Lumière
French inventor (1864–1948)
1,160
views
views
74
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
1,145
views
views
75
Emmanuelle Charpentier
French microbiologist and biochemist (born 1968)
1,140
views
views
76
Jean-Antoine Chaptal
French chemist and physician (1756–1832)
1,121
views
views
77
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
1,112
views
views
78
Pierre Joliot
French biochemist
1,100
views
views
79
Alain Devaquet
French politician (1942–2018)
1,098
views
views
80
Leo Rudolf Raubal
Adolf Hitler's nephew (1906–1977)
1,062
views
views
81
Henri Nestlé
businessman (1814-2019)
1,057
views
views
82
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
1,038
views
views
83
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,033
views
views
84
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
1,031
views
views
85
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
1,031
views
views
86
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851)
1,004
views
views
87
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
991
views
views
88
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
957
views
views
89
Abu Bakr al-Razi
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
956
views
views
90
Louis Le Prince
French artist and cinematographer, pioneer of cinema
947
views
views
91
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
942
views
views
92
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
926
views
views
93
Frédérique Vidal
French biochemist and politician
911
views
views
94
John Magufuli
5th President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021
910
views
views
95
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
906
views
views
96
Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier
French balloonist
904
views
views
97
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
899
views
views
98
Michel Eugène Chevreul
French chemist (1786-1889)
890
views
views
99
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
890
views
views
100
François Jacob
French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965
864
views
views
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