Trending Chemists this week
The 100 most-viewed chemists this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Dolph Lundgren.
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Ranked
430,800
Total Views (this week)
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Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
33,757
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2
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
28,470
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views
3
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
24,922
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views
4
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
20,680
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views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
20,416
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views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
19,808
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views
7
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
16,427
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views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
13,288
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views
9
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
8,792
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views
10
Rake Yohn
American television personality
7,237
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views
11
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
7,181
views
views
12
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
6,541
views
views
13
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
5,768
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views
14
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
5,355
views
views
15
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
5,225
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views
16
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
5,191
views
views
17
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
5,022
views
views
18
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
4,901
views
views
19
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
4,760
views
views
20
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
4,579
views
views
21
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
4,513
views
views
22
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
4,348
views
views
23
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
4,292
views
views
24
Drew Weissman
American physician-scientist (born 1959)
4,223
views
views
25
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
4,155
views
views
26
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
4,088
views
views
27
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
4,018
views
views
28
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
3,963
views
views
29
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
3,953
views
views
30
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
3,921
views
views
31
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
3,893
views
views
32
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,474
views
views
33
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
3,272
views
views
34
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
3,183
views
views
35
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
3,050
views
views
36
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
3,035
views
views
37
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
3,032
views
views
38
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
2,987
views
views
39
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
2,978
views
views
40
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
2,866
views
views
41
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
2,845
views
views
42
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
2,763
views
views
43
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
2,691
views
views
44
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
2,682
views
views
45
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
2,558
views
views
46
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
2,549
views
views
47
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
2,496
views
views
48
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
2,458
views
views
49
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
2,417
views
views
50
Pavel Jungwirth
Czech chemist and academic (1966–2026)
2,408
views
views
51
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
2,391
views
views
52
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
2,380
views
views
53
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
2,364
views
views
54
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
2,332
views
views
55
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
2,243
views
views
56
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
2,235
views
views
57
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
2,159
views
views
58
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
2,046
views
views
59
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
2,032
views
views
60
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
2,024
views
views
61
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
1,952
views
views
62
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
1,927
views
views
63
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
1,898
views
views
64
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
1,888
views
views
65
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
1,790
views
views
66
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
1,788
views
views
67
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
1,722
views
views
68
Robert Malone
American doctor and biochemist
1,721
views
views
69
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
1,687
views
views
70
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
1,680
views
views
71
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
1,662
views
views
72
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
1,657
views
views
73
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
1,653
views
views
74
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
1,633
views
views
75
Peter Douglas
American film producer
1,624
views
views
76
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Prafulla Chandra Ray
Bengali chemist, educationist, poet, historian, industrialist and philanthropist (1861–1944)
1,617
views
views
77
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
1,610
views
views
78
Silvana Konermann
Swiss-American biochemist
1,562
views
views
79
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist (1824–1887)
1,533
views
views
80
Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
fictional character on The Big Bang Theory
1,489
views
views
81
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
1,489
views
views
82
Blockbuster
name of four fictional characters in the DC Comics Universe
1,465
views
views
83
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
1,462
views
views
84
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
1,439
views
views
85
Lucius Fox
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
1,427
views
views
86
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
1,420
views
views
87
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
1,392
views
views
88
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
1,384
views
views
89
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
1,360
views
views
90
Thérèse Coffey
British politician
1,349
views
views
91
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
1,318
views
views
92
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
1,316
views
views
93
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
1,311
views
views
94
Donald Pettit
American astronaut
1,305
views
views
95
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
1,301
views
views
96
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
1,290
views
views
97
Frank Olson
American chemist (1910-1953)
1,284
views
views
98
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian biochemist
1,278
views
views
99
Humphry Davy
British chemist
1,250
views
views
100
Peter Duesberg
German-American molecular biologist (born 1936)
1,230
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views
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