Trending Chemists of all time
The 100 most-viewed chemists of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.
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193,835
Total Views (of all time)
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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
47,174
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2
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
16,571
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3
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
10,959
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4
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
4,906
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views
5
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
4,849
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views
6
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
4,644
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views
7
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
4,490
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views
8
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
3,986
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views
9
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
3,836
views
views
10
Rake Yohn
American television personality
3,407
views
views
11
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
3,089
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views
12
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
2,938
views
views
13
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
2,838
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views
14
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
2,615
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views
15
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
2,540
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views
16
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
2,308
views
views
17
Jessie Inchauspé
French biochemist
2,062
views
views
18
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
2,046
views
views
19
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
1,951
views
views
20
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
1,844
views
views
21
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
1,485
views
views
22
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
1,483
views
views
23
Charles Goodyear
American inventor (1800-1860)
1,458
views
views
24
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
1,447
views
views
25
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
1,438
views
views
26
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
1,432
views
views
27
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
1,421
views
views
28
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
1,419
views
views
29
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
1,346
views
views
30
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
1,346
views
views
31
Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
fictional character on The Big Bang Theory
1,339
views
views
32
Emmanuelle Charpentier
French microbiologist and biochemist (born 1968)
1,294
views
views
33
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
1,247
views
views
34
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
1,193
views
views
35
Howard Florey
Australian pathologist (1898-1968)
1,185
views
views
36
David Baltimore
American biologist and Nobel laureate (1938–2025)
1,172
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views
37
Story Musgrave
American physician and NASA astronaut
1,151
views
views
38
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
1,142
views
views
39
Josiah Willard Gibbs
American scientist (1839–1903)
1,137
views
views
40
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
1,136
views
views
41
Donald Pettit
American astronaut
1,129
views
views
42
Leo Rudolf Raubal
Adolf Hitler's nephew (1906–1977)
1,118
views
views
43
Robert Augustus Chesebrough
American chemist (1837–1933)
1,105
views
views
44
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
1,082
views
views
45
August Kekulé
German organic chemist (1829–1896)
1,076
views
views
46
Justus von Liebig
German chemist (1803-1873)
1,050
views
views
47
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
1,030
views
views
48
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
1,014
views
views
49
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
975
views
views
50
Elio Di Rupo
Belgian politician (born 1951)
970
views
views
51
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
912
views
views
52
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
901
views
views
53
Jheri Redding
American hairdresser (1907-1998)
896
views
views
54
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
859
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views
55
Bruno Tesch
German chemist, arrested by the British as a war criminal, tried, and executed (1890-1946)
853
views
views
56
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist (1779–1848)
832
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views
57
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
810
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views
58
Wilfrid Voynich
Polish revolutionary, antiquarian, bibliophile, historian and eponym of Voynich manuscript (1865-1930)
800
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views
59
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
735
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views
60
William Worrall Mayo
English born medical doctor and chemist (1819-1911)
719
views
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61
Yulii Khariton
Soviet physicist (1904-1996)
703
views
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62
George Kistiakowsky
Ukrainian-American physical chemistry professor
689
views
views
63
Johann Konrad Dippel
German pietist theologian, alchemist and physician
683
views
views
64
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
680
views
views
65
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
Indian scientist and chemical engineer
668
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views
66
Drew Weissman
American physician-scientist (born 1959)
659
views
views
67
Nicholas Sand
Psychedlic Visionary (1941-2017)
642
views
views
68
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
636
views
views
69
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
629
views
views
70
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
612
views
views
71
Selman Abraham Waksman
American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics
606
views
views
72
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Prafulla Chandra Ray
Bengali chemist, educationist, poet, historian, industrialist and philanthropist (1861–1944)
594
views
views
73
William Henry Bragg
British scientist (1862–1942)
572
views
views
74
Percy Cox
British Indian Army general (1864-1937)
553
views
views
75
Lidewij de Vos
Dutch politician (born 1997)
522
views
views
76
Asima Chatterjee
Indian chemist (1917–2006)
513
views
views
77
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
501
views
views
78
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
500
views
views
79
Alice Hamilton
American physician and toxicologist (1869–1970)
499
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views
80
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
473
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views
81
Patrick Arnold
American chemist
453
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views
82
Wilbur Scoville
American pharmacist (1865–1942)
450
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views
83
Jack Szostak
American biologist
449
views
views
84
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist (1824–1887)
438
views
views
85
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
436
views
views
86
Jonathan M. Rothberg
American biologist
421
views
views
87
Robert Malone
American doctor and biochemist
419
views
views
88
Louis Ignarro
American physiologist
410
views
views
89
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
394
views
views
90
Friedrich Miescher
Swiss biochemist (1844-1895)
390
views
views
91
Yelavarthy Nayudamma
Indian chemical engineer
377
views
views
92
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
372
views
views
93
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner (1925–2011)
365
views
views
94
Donald Mastick
American chemist (1920–2007)
356
views
views
95
Isabelle Stengers
Belgian philosopher of science and scientist (born 1949)
347
views
views
96
Roy J. Plunkett
American chemist (1910–1994)
339
views
views
97
Alexander Kellas
Scottish mountain climber and chemist (1868-1921)
333
views
views
98
Bernardo Houssay
Argentine physician (1887–1971)
328
views
views
99
Carl Kellner
Austrian chemist and mystic (1851-1905)
318
views
views
100
Khalid ibn Yazid
Umayyad prince and legendary alchemist
316
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