Trending Chemists this month
The 100 most-viewed chemists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Pope Francis.
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302,114
Total Views (this month)
1
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
22,328
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views
2
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
19,528
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
18,011
views
views
4
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
16,903
views
views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
15,926
views
views
6
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
13,472
views
views
7
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
13,201
views
views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
8,818
views
views
9
Craig Venter
American biotechnologist and businessman (1946–2026)
7,642
views
views
10
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
7,272
views
views
11
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
6,478
views
views
12
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
5,320
views
views
13
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
4,281
views
views
14
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
4,038
views
views
15
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
4,022
views
views
16
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
3,780
views
views
17
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
3,724
views
views
18
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,722
views
views
19
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
3,536
views
views
20
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
3,528
views
views
21
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
3,205
views
views
22
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
3,177
views
views
23
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
3,066
views
views
24
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
2,912
views
views
25
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
2,849
views
views
26
Carlos Blanco Pérez
Spanish writer
2,769
views
views
27
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
2,605
views
views
28
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
2,521
views
views
29
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
2,457
views
views
30
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
2,314
views
views
31
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
2,275
views
views
32
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
2,182
views
views
33
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
2,130
views
views
34
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
2,123
views
views
35
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
2,035
views
views
36
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
2,033
views
views
37
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
2,021
views
views
38
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
1,961
views
views
39
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
1,886
views
views
40
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
1,874
views
views
41
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
1,837
views
views
42
Johanna Budwig
German biochemist (1908–2003)
1,727
views
views
43
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
1,718
views
views
44
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
1,699
views
views
45
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
1,687
views
views
46
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
1,660
views
views
47
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
1,639
views
views
48
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
1,602
views
views
49
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
1,579
views
views
50
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
1,559
views
views
51
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
1,493
views
views
52
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
1,481
views
views
53
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
1,444
views
views
54
Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte
Spanish biochemist
1,441
views
views
55
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
1,427
views
views
56
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
1,401
views
views
57
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
1,337
views
views
58
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
1,306
views
views
59
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
1,275
views
views
60
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
1,264
views
views
61
Rake Yohn
American television personality
1,236
views
views
62
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,176
views
views
63
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
1,174
views
views
64
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
1,152
views
views
65
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
1,138
views
views
66
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
1,131
views
views
67
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
1,124
views
views
68
Nigel Braun
Canadian YouTuber (born 1991)
1,113
views
views
69
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
1,068
views
views
70
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
1,065
views
views
71
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
1,048
views
views
72
Charles M. Lieber
American chemist (1959-)
1,028
views
views
73
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
1,010
views
views
74
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
999
views
views
75
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
981
views
views
76
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
932
views
views
77
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
916
views
views
78
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
909
views
views
79
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
902
views
views
80
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
899
views
views
81
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
894
views
views
82
Eugène Schueller
French chemist and businessman (1881–1957)
884
views
views
83
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
867
views
views
84
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
865
views
views
85
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
864
views
views
86
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
861
views
views
87
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
856
views
views
88
James Tour
American chemist and creationist
855
views
views
89
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
German chemist, science journalist and television presenter
849
views
views
90
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
837
views
views
91
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian biochemist
831
views
views
92
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
829
views
views
93
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
826
views
views
94
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Spanish scientist (1852-1934)
799
views
views
95
Eli Lilly
American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist
795
views
views
96
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
787
views
views
97
Abu Bakr al-Razi
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
782
views
views
98
Humphry Davy
British chemist
778
views
views
99
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
777
views
views
100
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
776
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