Trending Chemists this week
The 100 most-viewed chemists this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Margaret Thatcher.
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414,420
Total Views (this week)
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Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
30,882
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2
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
30,453
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views
3
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
23,727
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views
4
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
23,359
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views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
23,259
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views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
21,636
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views
7
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
11,932
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views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
11,329
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views
9
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
7,591
views
views
10
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
7,318
views
views
11
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
6,878
views
views
12
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
6,389
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views
13
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
6,309
views
views
14
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
5,506
views
views
15
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
5,462
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views
16
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
4,921
views
views
17
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
4,909
views
views
18
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
4,829
views
views
19
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
4,686
views
views
20
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
4,669
views
views
21
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
4,597
views
views
22
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
4,489
views
views
23
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
4,445
views
views
24
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
4,193
views
views
25
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
4,161
views
views
26
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
3,992
views
views
27
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
3,700
views
views
28
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
3,442
views
views
29
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
3,362
views
views
30
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
3,281
views
views
31
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
3,264
views
views
32
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
3,261
views
views
33
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,237
views
views
34
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
3,220
views
views
35
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
3,151
views
views
36
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
2,916
views
views
37
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
2,913
views
views
38
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
2,868
views
views
39
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
2,812
views
views
40
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
2,691
views
views
41
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
2,527
views
views
42
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
2,498
views
views
43
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
2,492
views
views
44
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
2,472
views
views
45
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
2,353
views
views
46
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
2,251
views
views
47
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
2,247
views
views
48
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
2,241
views
views
49
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
2,232
views
views
50
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
2,229
views
views
51
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
2,104
views
views
52
Harsha Bhogle
Indian cricket commentator
2,093
views
views
53
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
2,087
views
views
54
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
2,054
views
views
55
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
2,048
views
views
56
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
2,013
views
views
57
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
1,978
views
views
58
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
1,972
views
views
59
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
1,931
views
views
60
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
1,919
views
views
61
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
1,832
views
views
62
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
1,803
views
views
63
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
1,799
views
views
64
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
1,741
views
views
65
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
1,738
views
views
66
Jeffrey Wigand
American whistleblower, tobacco company executive
1,666
views
views
67
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
1,650
views
views
68
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
1,602
views
views
69
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
1,553
views
views
70
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
1,532
views
views
71
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
1,474
views
views
72
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
1,449
views
views
73
Lucius Fox
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
1,412
views
views
74
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,411
views
views
75
Nigel Braun
Canadian YouTuber (born 1991)
1,359
views
views
76
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
1,353
views
views
77
Peter Douglas
American film producer
1,339
views
views
78
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
1,324
views
views
79
Yellapragada Subbarow
Indian-American scientist
1,322
views
views
80
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
1,315
views
views
81
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
1,315
views
views
82
Albert Bourla
Greek-American pharmaceutical executive
1,312
views
views
83
Professor Pyg
fictional character in DC Comics and an enemy of Batman and Robin
1,297
views
views
84
Charles Schein
Romanian chemist
1,295
views
views
85
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
1,284
views
views
86
Humphry Davy
British chemist
1,266
views
views
87
Eli Lilly
American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist
1,258
views
views
88
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
1,251
views
views
89
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
1,215
views
views
90
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,211
views
views
91
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
1,209
views
views
92
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
1,206
views
views
93
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
1,154
views
views
94
Frank Olson
American chemist (1910-1953)
1,144
views
views
95
Jessie Inchauspé
French biochemist and author
1,129
views
views
96
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
1,098
views
views
97
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
1,096
views
views
98
Henry Cavendish
English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
1,082
views
views
99
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
1,072
views
views
100
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian biochemist
1,072
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