Trending Chemists this month
The 100 most-viewed chemists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Margaret Thatcher.
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Ranked
474,530
Total Views (this month)
1
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
35,195
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
31,005
views
views
3
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
30,091
views
views
4
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
28,174
views
views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
25,073
views
views
6
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
25,014
views
views
7
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
16,803
views
views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
13,706
views
views
9
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
9,787
views
views
10
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
9,271
views
views
11
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
7,879
views
views
12
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
7,459
views
views
13
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
6,866
views
views
14
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
5,800
views
views
15
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
5,735
views
views
16
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
5,715
views
views
17
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
5,611
views
views
18
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
5,480
views
views
19
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
5,099
views
views
20
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
5,015
views
views
21
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
4,807
views
views
22
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
4,613
views
views
23
Harsha Bhogle
Indian cricket commentator
4,496
views
views
24
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
4,315
views
views
25
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
4,135
views
views
26
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
4,072
views
views
27
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
4,025
views
views
28
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
3,918
views
views
29
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
3,885
views
views
30
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
3,853
views
views
31
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,781
views
views
32
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
3,775
views
views
33
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
3,580
views
views
34
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
3,505
views
views
35
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
3,499
views
views
36
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
3,390
views
views
37
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
3,288
views
views
38
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
3,251
views
views
39
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
3,176
views
views
40
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
3,118
views
views
41
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
3,083
views
views
42
Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006)
2,994
views
views
43
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
2,993
views
views
44
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
2,948
views
views
45
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
2,812
views
views
46
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
2,735
views
views
47
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
2,678
views
views
48
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
2,531
views
views
49
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
2,510
views
views
50
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
2,437
views
views
51
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
2,431
views
views
52
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
2,398
views
views
53
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
2,353
views
views
54
Yitzhak Apeloig
scholar
2,287
views
views
55
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
2,189
views
views
56
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
2,133
views
views
57
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
2,118
views
views
58
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
2,074
views
views
59
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
2,064
views
views
60
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
2,062
views
views
61
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
2,042
views
views
62
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
2,039
views
views
63
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
2,016
views
views
64
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
1,981
views
views
65
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
1,951
views
views
66
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
1,948
views
views
67
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
1,924
views
views
68
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
1,892
views
views
69
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
1,848
views
views
70
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
1,828
views
views
71
Yellapragada Subbarow
Indian-American scientist
1,735
views
views
72
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
1,716
views
views
73
Alice Augusta Ball
African American chemist (1892–1916)
1,656
views
views
74
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
1,624
views
views
75
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
1,608
views
views
76
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
1,605
views
views
77
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
1,591
views
views
78
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
1,584
views
views
79
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
1,581
views
views
80
Zalman Shapiro
American chemist (1920-2016)
1,517
views
views
81
Molten Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,506
views
views
82
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
1,499
views
views
83
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
Spanish politician and chemist (1951-2019)
1,496
views
views
84
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,457
views
views
85
Lucius Fox
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
1,444
views
views
86
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
1,442
views
views
87
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
1,439
views
views
88
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
1,424
views
views
89
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
1,422
views
views
90
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,413
views
views
91
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
1,355
views
views
92
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
1,352
views
views
93
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
1,351
views
views
94
Eli Lilly
American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist
1,345
views
views
95
Peter Douglas
American film producer
1,337
views
views
96
Nigel Braun
Canadian YouTuber (born 1991)
1,318
views
views
97
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian biochemist
1,309
views
views
98
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
1,307
views
views
99
Papa Smurf
Smurf character, leader of the smurfs
1,279
views
views
100
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
1,259
views
views
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