Trending Chemists this month
The 100 most-viewed chemists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Dolph Lundgren.
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Ranked
921,700
Total Views (this month)
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Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
101,319
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2
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
63,810
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views
3
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
51,230
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views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
43,818
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views
5
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
41,055
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views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
41,050
views
views
7
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
32,501
views
views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
26,170
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views
9
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
15,482
views
views
10
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
15,451
views
views
11
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
14,880
views
views
12
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
12,523
views
views
13
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
11,820
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views
14
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
11,264
views
views
15
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
11,123
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views
16
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
10,754
views
views
17
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
10,643
views
views
18
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
10,523
views
views
19
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
10,449
views
views
20
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
9,839
views
views
21
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
9,733
views
views
22
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
9,618
views
views
23
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
9,247
views
views
24
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
9,113
views
views
25
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
9,071
views
views
26
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
8,825
views
views
27
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
8,369
views
views
28
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
7,824
views
views
29
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
7,633
views
views
30
Pavel Jungwirth
Czech chemist and academic (1966–2026)
7,457
views
views
31
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
7,329
views
views
32
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
7,244
views
views
33
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
6,616
views
views
34
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
6,602
views
views
35
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
6,588
views
views
36
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
6,431
views
views
37
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
6,315
views
views
38
Rake Yohn
American television personality
5,915
views
views
39
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
5,808
views
views
40
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
5,789
views
views
41
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
5,762
views
views
42
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
5,755
views
views
43
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
5,634
views
views
44
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
5,618
views
views
45
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
5,585
views
views
46
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
5,572
views
views
47
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
5,300
views
views
48
Drew Weissman
American physician-scientist (born 1959)
5,160
views
views
49
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
5,078
views
views
50
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
5,074
views
views
51
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
4,788
views
views
52
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
4,571
views
views
53
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
4,566
views
views
54
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
4,506
views
views
55
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
4,433
views
views
56
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
4,242
views
views
57
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
4,219
views
views
58
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
4,150
views
views
59
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
4,137
views
views
60
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
4,131
views
views
61
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
4,115
views
views
62
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
4,036
views
views
63
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
3,974
views
views
64
Aharon Katzir
Israeli scientist (1913-1972)
3,895
views
views
65
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
3,855
views
views
66
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
3,839
views
views
67
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
3,781
views
views
68
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
3,766
views
views
69
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
3,547
views
views
70
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
3,531
views
views
71
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
3,530
views
views
72
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
3,492
views
views
73
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
3,410
views
views
74
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
3,295
views
views
75
Frank Olson
American chemist (1910-1953)
3,238
views
views
76
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
3,199
views
views
77
Peter Douglas
American film producer
3,194
views
views
78
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
3,166
views
views
79
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
3,166
views
views
80
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
3,141
views
views
81
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
3,078
views
views
82
Lucius Fox
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,027
views
views
83
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist (1914–2015)
2,988
views
views
84
John Tukey
American mathematician (1915-2000)
2,966
views
views
85
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
2,947
views
views
86
Humphry Davy
British chemist
2,907
views
views
87
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
2,877
views
views
88
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
2,868
views
views
89
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
2,864
views
views
90
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologist
2,848
views
views
91
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
2,812
views
views
92
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
2,747
views
views
93
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
2,730
views
views
94
Alice Augusta Ball
African American chemist (1892–1916)
2,678
views
views
95
Margaret Beckett
British politician (born 1943)
2,574
views
views
96
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
2,521
views
views
97
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
2,485
views
views
98
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
2,400
views
views
99
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
2,354
views
views
100
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
2,347
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