Trending Chemists — the 7 days to 24 October 2026

1

Marie Curie

Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)

📚 72 citations 📰 10 stories · 4 sources

76,392
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2

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

📚 55 citations 📰 5 stories · 3 sources

70,639
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3

Pope Francis

266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)

📚 51 citations 📰 236 stories · 20 sources

61,440
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4

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)

📚 54 citations

54,038
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5

Margaret Thatcher

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990

📚 53 citations 📰 64 stories · 20 sources

50,826
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6

Ian Gibbons

American based British biochemist

45,529
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7

Dolph Lundgren

Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)

📚 17 citations 📰 14 stories · 3 sources

44,721
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8

Isaac Asimov

American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)

📚 80 citations

30,397
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9

Angela Merkel

chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)

📚 133 citations 📰 22 stories · 3 sources

27,753
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10

Kensō Soai

Japanese organic chemist (1950– )

📚 5 citations

19,149
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11

Alfred Nobel

Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)

📚 33 citations

19,092
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12

David M. Sabatini

biologist who discovered mTOR

📚 9 citations

18,471
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13

Walter White

fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad

📚 9 citations 📰 6 stories · 2 sources

16,180
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14

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

📚 67 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

16,075
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15

Louis Slotin

Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)

📚 5 citations

15,773
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16

Channing Robertson

American chemical engineer and academic

15,716
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17

Niels Bohr

Danish physicist (1885–1962)

📚 74 citations

14,389
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18

Rosalind Franklin

British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)

📚 26 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

13,417
views

19

The Joker

fictional character throughout the DC Universe

📚 12 citations

13,104
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20

Avicenna

Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)

📚 44 citations

12,761
views

21

Valery Legasov

Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)

📚 8 citations

12,132
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22

Max Factor

American businessman (1872–1938)

📚 4 citations 📰 18 stories · 4 sources

11,719
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23

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist (1834–1907)

📚 34 citations

11,242
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24

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch

📚 25 citations

10,897
views

25

Alexander Fleming

Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)

📚 38 citations

10,479
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26

Paracelsus

Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)

📚 30 citations

10,431
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27

Antoine Lavoisier

French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)

📚 37 citations

10,428
views

28

Ernest Rutherford

New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)

📚 46 citations

10,150
views

29

Michael Faraday

British scientist (1791–1867)

📚 49 citations

9,891
views

30

Irène Joliot-Curie

French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)

📚 40 citations

8,854
views

31

Poison Ivy

fictional character throughout the DC Universe

📚 6 citations 📰 14 stories · 13 sources

8,552
views

32

Pierre Curie

French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)

📚 49 citations

8,265
views

33

Robert Ley

German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)

📚 26 citations

8,128
views

34

Lex Luthor

fictional character in DC Comics

📚 5 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

7,563
views

35

Primo Levi

Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)

📚 39 citations

7,314
views

36

Albert Wesker

fictional character from Resident Evil

📚 1 citation

7,195
views

37

Mikhail Lomonosov

Russian polymath (1711-1765)

📚 44 citations

7,141
views

38

George Washington Carver

African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)

📚 23 citations

7,068
views

39

Fritz Haber

German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)

📚 33 citations

6,952
views

40

Bane

fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain

📚 2 citations

6,913
views

41

Shinya Yamanaka

Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)

📚 41 citations

6,882
views

42

Ivan Pavlov

Russian physiologist (1849–1936)

📚 45 citations 📰 7 stories · 3 sources

6,649
views

43

Lise Meitner

Austrian-Swedish physicist

📚 38 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

6,572
views

44

Alessandro Volta

Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)

📚 30 citations

6,551
views

45

Gisela Jacobasch

German university teacher

6,446
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46

Linus Pauling

American scientist (1901–1994)

📚 70 citations

6,440
views

47

Lionel Dahmer

American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer

📚 6 citations

6,228
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48

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Indian physicist (1888–1970)

📚 28 citations

6,007
views

49

John Dalton

British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)

📚 26 citations

5,974
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50

Karen Wetterhahn

American chemist (1948–1997)

📚 2 citations

5,821
views

51

James Watt

British engineer (1736–1819)

📚 37 citations

5,771
views

52

James Watson

American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)

📚 61 citations

5,673
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53

Elena Ceaușescu

Romanian politician (1919–1989)

📚 8 citations

5,660
views

54

Armando Bukele Kattán

Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)

5,573
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55

Oliver Sacks

British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)

📚 33 citations

5,536
views

56

Henry Pym

fictional character in Marvel Comics

📚 1 citation

5,495
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57

Frauke Petry

German politician

📚 19 citations

5,466
views

58

Scarecrow

fictional character in DC Comics

📚 3 citations

5,058
views

59

Ludwig Boltzmann

Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)

📚 29 citations

4,955
views

60

Robert Koch

German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)

📚 43 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

4,752
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61

Robert Havemann

German chemist and dissident (1910–1982)

📚 16 citations

4,749
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62

Henri B. Kagan

French chemist

📚 27 citations

4,681
views

63

Thomas Midgley

American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)

📚 15 citations

4,563
views

64

Albertus Magnus

German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)

📚 40 citations

4,518
views

65

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)

📚 42 citations

4,395
views

66

Chaim Weizmann

Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)

📚 24 citations

4,254
views

67

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Italian neurologist (1909–2012)

📚 50 citations

4,207
views

68

Sebastian Lege

German chef and TV personality

4,170
views

69

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Spanish scientist (1852-1934)

📚 62 citations

4,079
views

70

David Koch

American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)

📚 13 citations

4,058
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71

Peter Douglas

American film producer

📚 5 citations

3,983
views

72

Francis Crick

British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004)

📚 30 citations

3,966
views

73

Amedeo Avogadro

Italian scientist

📚 22 citations

3,947
views

74

Koichi Tanaka

Japanese chemist

📚 15 citations

3,911
views

75

Beast

fictional character in Marvel Comics

📚 2 citations

3,832
views

76

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

📚 38 citations

3,826
views

77

Eleftherios P. Diamandis

pathobiology researcher

3,814
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78

Jack Parsons

American rocket engineer (1914–1952)

📚 8 citations

3,678
views

79

Alexander Borodin

Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)

📚 36 citations

3,671
views

80

Jennifer Doudna

American biochemist

📚 69 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

3,629
views

81

Albert Hofmann

Swiss chemist (1906–2008)

📚 23 citations

3,582
views

82

Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim

German chemist, science journalist and television presenter

📚 22 citations

3,570
views

83

Salimuzzaman Siddiqui

natural products chemist, scientist, painter, poet (1897–1994)

📚 7 citations

3,560
views

84

Antony Kidman

Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)

📚 6 citations

3,550
views

85

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

Spanish politician and chemist (1951-2019)

📚 18 citations

3,512
views

86

Karen Silkwood

Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)

📚 6 citations

3,316
views

87

Tu Youyou

Chinese medical scientist

📚 17 citations

3,259
views

88

Otto Hahn

German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)

📚 34 citations 📰 4 stories · 3 sources

3,258
views

89

Robert Boyle

Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor (1627-1691)

📚 34 citations

3,189
views

90

Ronald Lancaster

Church of England clergyman, chemistry teacher, and fireworks manufacturer

3,135
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91

Pierre Joliot

French biochemist

📚 13 citations

3,114
views

92

Mr. Freeze

fictional character throughout the DC Universe

📚 3 citations

3,105
views

93

Elias Canetti

Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)

📚 41 citations

3,068
views

94

Chulabhorn, Princess Srisavangavadhana

Thai princess

📚 4 citations

3,027
views

95

Al-Biruni

11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)

📚 18 citations

3,026
views

96

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)

📚 15 citations

2,962
views

97

Peter Hegemann

German biophysicist

📚 15 citations

2,960
views

98

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

French naturalist (1744-1829)

📚 38 citations

2,959
views

99

Omar M. Yaghi

American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)

📚 28 citations

2,855
views

100

Claudia Elena Vásquez

Colombian model and former beauty queen (born 1974)

2,839
views