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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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1
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
πŸ“š 53 citations Person
30,882
views
2
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
30,453
views
3
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
πŸ“š 51 citations Person
23,727
views
4
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
πŸ“š 72 citations Person
23,359
views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452βˆ’1519)
πŸ“š 55 citations Person
23,259
views
6
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
21,636
views
7
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
11,932
views
8
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
πŸ“š 80 citations Person
11,329
views
9
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
πŸ“š 133 citations Person
7,591
views
10
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
7,318
views
11
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
πŸ“š 12 citations Person
6,878
views
12
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
6,389
views
13
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
6,309
views
14
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
πŸ“š 67 citations Person
5,506
views
15
Avicenna
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
5,462
views
16
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
4,921
views
17
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
πŸ“š 23 citations Person
4,909
views
18
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
4,829
views
19
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
4,686
views
20
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
4,669
views
21
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
4,597
views
22
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
πŸ“š 23 citations Person
4,489
views
23
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
πŸ“š 74 citations Person
4,445
views
24
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
4,193
views
25
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
4,161
views
26
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
3,992
views
27
Jack Parsons
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
3,700
views
28
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
3,442
views
29
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
3,362
views
30
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
3,281
views
31
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
3,264
views
32
Louis Slotin
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
3,261
views
33
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
3,237
views
34
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
3,220
views
35
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
3,151
views
36
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
2,916
views
37
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
2,913
views
38
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
2,868
views
39
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
2,812
views
40
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
2,691
views
41
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
2,527
views
42
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
2,498
views
43
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
πŸ“š 13 citations Person
2,492
views
44
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
2,472
views
45
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
2,353
views
46
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
2,251
views
47
James Watt
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
2,247
views
48
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
2,241
views
49
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
πŸ“š 69 citations Person
2,232
views
50
James Watson
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
2,229
views
51
Armando Bukele KattΓ‘n
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
Person
2,104
views
52
Harsha Bhogle
Indian cricket commentator
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
2,093
views
53
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
2,087
views
54
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
2,054
views
55
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
2,048
views
56
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
2,013
views
57
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
1,978
views
58
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
πŸ“š 24 citations Person
1,972
views
59
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
1,931
views
60
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
1,919
views
61
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
1,832
views
62
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
1,803
views
63
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
1,799
views
64
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
1,741
views
65
Primo Levi
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
1,738
views
66
Jeffrey Wigand
American whistleblower, tobacco company executive
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
1,666
views
67
Robert Koch
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
1,650
views
68
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
1,602
views
69
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
1,553
views
70
Sidney Gottlieb
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
1,532
views
71
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
1,474
views
72
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
Person
1,449
views
73
Lucius Fox
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
1,412
views
74
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
1,411
views
75
Nigel Braun
Canadian YouTuber (born 1991)
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
1,359
views
76
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
1,353
views
77
Peter Douglas
American film producer
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
1,339
views
78
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
πŸ“š 16 citations Person
1,324
views
79
Yellapragada Subbarow
Indian-American scientist
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
1,322
views
80
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
1,315
views
81
Albertus Magnus
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
1,315
views
82
Albert Bourla
Greek-American pharmaceutical executive
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
1,312
views
83
Professor Pyg
fictional character in DC Comics and an enemy of Batman and Robin
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
1,297
views
84
Charles Schein
Romanian chemist
Person
1,295
views
85
Frederick Banting
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
πŸ“š 25 citations Person
1,284
views
86
Humphry Davy
Humphry Davy
British chemist
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
1,266
views
87
Eli Lilly
Eli Lilly
American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
1,258
views
88
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
1,251
views
89
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
πŸ“š 27 citations Person
1,215
views
90
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
1,211
views
91
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
πŸ“š 27 citations Person
1,209
views
92
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
1,206
views
93
Francis Collins
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
πŸ“š 50 citations Person
1,154
views
94
Frank Olson
Frank Olson
American chemist (1910-1953)
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
1,144
views
95
Jessie InchauspΓ©
French biochemist and author
Person
1,129
views
96
Otto Heinrich Warburg
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
πŸ“š 22 citations Person
1,098
views
97
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
πŸ“š 27 citations Person
1,096
views
98
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
1,082
views
99
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
1,072
views
100
Katalin KarikΓ³
Hungarian biochemist
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
1,072
views