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Trending Chemists in France this year

The 100 most-viewed chemists this year on Wikipedia (France). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Marie Curie.

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29,593
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1
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
📚 72 citations Person
4,041
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
📚 55 citations Person
2,458
views
3
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
📚 53 citations Person
1,679
views
4
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
📚 51 citations Person
1,614
views
5
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
📚 54 citations Person
1,146
views
6
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
📚 67 citations Person
927
views
7
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
📚 133 citations Person
901
views
8
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
📚 29 citations Person
893
views
9
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
📚 40 citations Person
829
views
10
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
📚 17 citations Person
828
views
11
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
📚 80 citations Person
776
views
12
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
📚 49 citations Person
627
views
13
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
📚 37 citations Person
547
views
14
Avicenna
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
📚 44 citations Person
537
views
15
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
📚 8 citations Person
509
views
16
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
📚 26 citations Person
414
views
17
Primo Levi
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
📚 39 citations Person
379
views
18
Eugène Schueller
French chemist and businessman (1881–1957)
📚 9 citations Person
342
views
19
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
📚 39 citations Person
319
views
20
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
📚 30 citations Person
305
views
21
Cheikh Anta Diop
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
📚 19 citations Person
281
views
22
Jessie Inchauspé
French biochemist and author
Person
272
views
23
Vincent Reynouard
French Holocaust denier
📚 5 citations Person
264
views
24
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
📚 33 citations Person
262
views
25
Marguerite Perey
French physicist (1909–1975)
📚 12 citations Person
256
views
26
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
📚 12 citations Person
255
views
27
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
📚 9 citations Person
234
views
28
James Watt
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
📚 37 citations Person
229
views
29
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
📚 30 citations Person
223
views
30
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
📚 37 citations Person
201
views
31
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
📚 38 citations Person
201
views
32
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
📚 34 citations Person
199
views
33
Claude Allègre
French politician and geochemist (1937–2025)
📚 37 citations Person
197
views
34
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
📚 38 citations Person
188
views
35
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
📚 74 citations Person
167
views
36
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
📚 5 citations Person
164
views
37
Elio Di Rupo
Belgian politician (born 1951)
📚 19 citations Person
157
views
38
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
📚 49 citations Person
152
views
39
Pierre Joliot
French biochemist
📚 13 citations Person
150
views
40
Henri Becquerel
Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
📚 35 citations Person
148
views
41
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
📚 23 citations Person
141
views
42
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
📚 38 citations Person
141
views
43
Jacques Monod
Jacques Monod
French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate (1910-1976)
📚 26 citations Person
141
views
44
Henri Laborit
French physician, writer and philosopher (1914-1995)
📚 11 citations Person
139
views
45
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
📚 1 citation Person
134
views
46
Bernard Palissy
French potter and engineer
📚 30 citations Person
134
views
47
Jean Perrin
Jean Perrin
French physicist (1870–1942)
📚 29 citations Person
130
views
48
Gaspard Monge
Gaspard Monge
French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818)
📚 42 citations Person
125
views
49
Marcellin Berthelot
Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist and politician (1827-1907)
📚 39 citations Person
122
views
50
Emmanuelle Charpentier
French microbiologist and biochemist (born 1968)
📚 39 citations Person
120
views
51
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
Person
119
views
52
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
📚 6 citations Person
114
views
53
Michel Eugène Chevreul
Michel Eugène Chevreul
French chemist (1786-1889)
📚 29 citations Person
111
views
54
Jacques Bergier
French writer and scientist (1912–1978)
📚 17 citations Person
107
views
55
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
📚 33 citations Person
107
views
56
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
📚 45 citations Person
105
views
57
Louis Lumière
French inventor (1864–1948)
📚 30 citations Person
99
views
58
Paul-Gilbert Langevin
French musicologist
📚 3 citations Person
98
views
59
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
📚 26 citations Person
97
views
60
Henri Nestlé
Henri Nestlé
businessman (1814-1890)
📚 10 citations Person
95
views
61
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
📚 24 citations Person
94
views
62
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
📚 46 citations Person
92
views
63
François-Vincent Raspail
François-Vincent Raspail
French chemist, naturalist, physician, physiologist, attorney, and socialist politician (1794-1878)
📚 20 citations Person
91
views
64
Richard F. Gordon
Richard F. Gordon
American astronaut (1929–2017)
📚 15 citations Person
89
views
65
Alain Mérieux
French businessman
📚 9 citations Person
88
views
66
Louis Daguerre
Louis Daguerre
French scientist, artist and photographer (1787–1851)
📚 28 citations Person
88
views
67
Éliane Montel
French physicist and chemist
Person
88
views
68
Albertus Magnus
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
📚 40 citations Person
88
views
69
Louis Slotin
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
📚 5 citations Person
87
views
70
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
📚 17 citations Person
84
views
71
James Watson
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
📚 61 citations Person
84
views
72
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
📚 29 citations Person
83
views
73
Robert Mond
British chemist and archaeologist (1867–1938)
📚 11 citations Person
81
views
74
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
📚 70 citations Person
80
views
75
Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier
Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier
French balloonist
📚 14 citations Person
79
views
76
Ilya Prigogine
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
📚 36 citations Person
78
views
77
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
📚 41 citations Person
77
views
78
Robert Koch
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
📚 43 citations Person
76
views
79
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
📚 34 citations Person
75
views
80
Frédérique Vidal
French biochemist and politician
📚 6 citations Person
75
views
81
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
📚 18 citations Person
74
views
82
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
📚 50 citations Person
72
views
83
Abbas Ibn Firnas
9th century astronomer and physician
📚 5 citations Person
72
views
84
Brigitte Boisselier
French chemist
Person
71
views
85
Abu Bakr al-Razi
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
📚 21 citations Person
69
views
86
Helen Sharman
British chemist who became the first Briton in space
📚 6 citations Person
68
views
87
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
📚 2 citations Person
67
views
88
Ernest Solvay
Ernest Solvay
Belgian chemist, industrialist, philanthropist (1838-1922)
📚 22 citations Person
62
views
89
François Jacob
François Jacob
French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965
📚 36 citations Person
62
views
90
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
📚 3 citations Person
61
views
91
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
📚 6 citations Person
61
views
92
Jean-Antoine Chaptal
Jean-Antoine Chaptal
French chemist and physician (1756–1832)
📚 20 citations Person
61
views
93
Alexander Borodin
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
📚 36 citations Person
61
views
94
Sophie Berthelot
French chemist (1837-1907)
📚 9 citations Person
60
views
95
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
📚 15 citations Person
60
views
96
Justus von Liebig
Justus von Liebig
German chemist (1803-1873)
📚 37 citations Person
60
views
97
Magnus von Braun
Magnus von Braun
German engineer (1919–2003)
📚 2 citations Person
57
views
98
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
📚 30 citations Person
56
views
99
Amedeo Avogadro
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
📚 22 citations Person
56
views
100
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
📚 6 citations Person
56
views