Trending Chemists of all time
The 100 most-viewed chemists of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Margaret Thatcher.
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573,688
Total Views (of all time)
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Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
61,150
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2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
37,159
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3
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
36,668
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4
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
33,816
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5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
30,837
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6
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
25,532
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views
7
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
20,129
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8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
17,341
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views
9
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
15,583
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views
10
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
13,065
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views
11
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
8,872
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views
12
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
8,723
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views
13
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
8,483
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views
14
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
7,522
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15
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
7,266
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views
16
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
7,109
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17
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
7,023
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views
18
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
6,354
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views
19
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
6,310
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views
20
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
6,194
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views
21
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
6,098
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views
22
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
6,089
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views
23
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
5,579
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views
24
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
5,268
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views
25
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
5,098
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26
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
4,875
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views
27
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
4,815
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views
28
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
4,676
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views
29
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
4,413
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views
30
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
4,403
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views
31
Patrick Arnold
American chemist
4,364
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views
32
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
4,327
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views
33
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
3,854
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views
34
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,698
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views
35
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
3,634
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views
36
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
3,620
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views
37
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
3,527
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views
38
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
3,409
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views
39
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
3,296
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views
40
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
3,171
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views
41
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
3,026
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views
42
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
2,950
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views
43
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
2,920
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views
44
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
2,735
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45
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
2,682
views
views
46
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
2,603
views
views
47
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
2,500
views
views
48
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
2,495
views
views
49
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
2,441
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views
50
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
2,426
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views
51
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
2,419
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views
52
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
2,419
views
views
53
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
2,350
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views
54
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
2,333
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views
55
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
2,295
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views
56
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
2,253
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views
57
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
2,252
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views
58
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
2,177
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views
59
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
2,177
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views
60
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
2,169
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views
61
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
2,156
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views
62
Nigel Braun
Canadian YouTuber (born 1991)
2,104
views
views
63
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
2,100
views
views
64
Peter Douglas
American film producer
2,073
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views
65
Margaret Beckett
British politician (born 1943)
2,026
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views
66
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian biochemist
2,025
views
views
67
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
2,025
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views
68
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
2,004
views
views
69
Betül Kaçar
Turkish-American astrobiologist (born 1983)
2,003
views
views
70
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
1,996
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views
71
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
1,942
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views
72
Rake Yohn
American television personality
1,928
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views
73
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
1,909
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views
74
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,856
views
views
75
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
1,841
views
views
76
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
1,828
views
views
77
Fred Chase Koch
American chemical engineer and entrepreneur (1900–1967)
1,821
views
views
78
Helen Sharman
British chemist who became the first Briton in space
1,808
views
views
79
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
1,791
views
views
80
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
1,778
views
views
81
Zalman Shapiro
American chemist (1920-2016)
1,718
views
views
82
George Koval
American and Soviet intelligence officer (1913–2006)
1,716
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views
83
Robert Malone
American doctor and biochemist
1,691
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views
84
Jeffrey Wigand
American whistleblower, tobacco company executive
1,687
views
views
85
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
1,679
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views
86
Eli Lilly
American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist
1,656
views
views
87
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
1,628
views
views
88
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,609
views
views
89
Frank Olson
American chemist (1910-1953)
1,602
views
views
90
Jessie Inchauspé
French biochemist and author
1,597
views
views
91
Daniel Etim Effiong
Nigerian actor, scriptwriter and film director
1,590
views
views
92
Henry Cavendish
English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
1,582
views
views
93
Charles M. Lieber
American chemist (1959-)
1,566
views
views
94
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
1,562
views
views
95
Kay Thompson
American author, singer, dancer, actress, and choreographer (1909–1998)
1,538
views
views
96
Humphry Davy
British chemist
1,517
views
views
97
Harsha Bhogle
Indian cricket commentator
1,487
views
views
98
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
1,471
views
views
99
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
1,414
views
views
100
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
1,392
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