Trending Chemists this year
The 100 most-viewed chemists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Dolph Lundgren.
100
Ranked
1,565,808
Total Views (this year)
1
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
135,176
views
views
2
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
108,955
views
views
3
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
89,788
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
85,008
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views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
76,546
views
views
6
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
72,746
views
views
7
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
50,989
views
views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
45,832
views
views
9
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
36,798
views
views
10
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
32,346
views
views
11
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
24,487
views
views
12
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
22,465
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views
13
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
21,480
views
views
14
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
20,748
views
views
15
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
19,909
views
views
16
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
19,329
views
views
17
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
17,968
views
views
18
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
17,733
views
views
19
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
16,686
views
views
20
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
16,448
views
views
21
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
16,332
views
views
22
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
15,930
views
views
23
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
15,474
views
views
24
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
15,165
views
views
25
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
14,765
views
views
26
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
14,609
views
views
27
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
14,442
views
views
28
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
13,479
views
views
29
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
12,737
views
views
30
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
12,488
views
views
31
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
12,476
views
views
32
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
12,388
views
views
33
Rake Yohn
American television personality
12,039
views
views
34
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
11,555
views
views
35
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
11,261
views
views
36
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
11,229
views
views
37
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
10,823
views
views
38
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
10,678
views
views
39
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
10,618
views
views
40
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
10,368
views
views
41
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
10,069
views
views
42
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
9,994
views
views
43
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
9,528
views
views
44
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
9,350
views
views
45
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
8,998
views
views
46
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
8,996
views
views
47
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
8,338
views
views
48
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
8,320
views
views
49
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
8,254
views
views
50
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
8,118
views
views
51
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
8,099
views
views
52
Craig Venter
American biotechnologist and businessman (1946–2026)
8,061
views
views
53
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
7,698
views
views
54
Pavel Jungwirth
Czech chemist and academic (1966–2026)
7,466
views
views
55
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
7,376
views
views
56
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
7,138
views
views
57
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
7,108
views
views
58
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
6,989
views
views
59
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
6,855
views
views
60
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
6,824
views
views
61
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
6,744
views
views
62
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
6,584
views
views
63
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
6,453
views
views
64
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
6,382
views
views
65
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
6,356
views
views
66
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
6,227
views
views
67
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
6,169
views
views
68
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
6,076
views
views
69
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
6,067
views
views
70
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
5,935
views
views
71
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
5,827
views
views
72
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
5,813
views
views
73
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
5,793
views
views
74
Drew Weissman
American physician-scientist (born 1959)
5,759
views
views
75
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
5,549
views
views
76
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
5,512
views
views
77
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
5,482
views
views
78
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
5,295
views
views
79
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
5,259
views
views
80
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
5,189
views
views
81
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
5,152
views
views
82
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
5,061
views
views
83
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
5,034
views
views
84
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
5,033
views
views
85
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
5,022
views
views
86
Peter Douglas
American film producer
4,954
views
views
87
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
4,913
views
views
88
Frank Olson
American chemist (1910-1953)
4,885
views
views
89
Harsha Bhogle
Indian cricket commentator
4,762
views
views
90
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
4,754
views
views
91
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
4,735
views
views
92
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922–1995)
4,504
views
views
93
Humphry Davy
British chemist
4,498
views
views
94
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
4,475
views
views
95
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
4,437
views
views
96
Lucius Fox
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
4,423
views
views
97
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
4,236
views
views
98
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian biochemist
4,204
views
views
99
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
4,193
views
views
100
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist (1914–2015)
4,190
views
views
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