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