Trending Chemists this year
The 100 most-viewed chemists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Margaret Thatcher.
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Ranked
767,656
Total Views (this year)
1
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
54,723
views
views
2
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
52,419
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
49,016
views
views
4
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
45,077
views
views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
40,999
views
views
6
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
38,215
views
views
7
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
23,281
views
views
8
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
23,259
views
views
9
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
22,524
views
views
10
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
13,051
views
views
11
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
13,007
views
views
12
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
11,601
views
views
13
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
11,497
views
views
14
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
11,147
views
views
15
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
11,035
views
views
16
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
9,204
views
views
17
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
8,977
views
views
18
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
8,816
views
views
19
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
8,551
views
views
20
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
8,335
views
views
21
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
7,875
views
views
22
Craig Venter
American biotechnologist and businessman (1946–2026)
7,872
views
views
23
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
7,679
views
views
24
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
7,164
views
views
25
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
7,120
views
views
26
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
6,984
views
views
27
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
6,592
views
views
28
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
6,406
views
views
29
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
6,193
views
views
30
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
6,089
views
views
31
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
6,058
views
views
32
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
5,618
views
views
33
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
5,553
views
views
34
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
5,541
views
views
35
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
5,306
views
views
36
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
5,286
views
views
37
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
5,174
views
views
38
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
5,138
views
views
39
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
5,116
views
views
40
Harsha Bhogle
Indian cricket commentator
5,064
views
views
41
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
4,642
views
views
42
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
4,530
views
views
43
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
4,389
views
views
44
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
4,377
views
views
45
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
4,314
views
views
46
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
4,270
views
views
47
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
4,163
views
views
48
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
4,067
views
views
49
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
4,012
views
views
50
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
3,992
views
views
51
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
3,954
views
views
52
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
3,930
views
views
53
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
3,858
views
views
54
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
3,849
views
views
55
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
3,618
views
views
56
Carlos Blanco Pérez
Spanish writer
3,487
views
views
57
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
3,475
views
views
58
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
3,439
views
views
59
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
3,376
views
views
60
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
3,334
views
views
61
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
3,314
views
views
62
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
3,226
views
views
63
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
3,218
views
views
64
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
3,072
views
views
65
Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006)
3,024
views
views
66
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
2,979
views
views
67
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
2,956
views
views
68
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
2,920
views
views
69
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
2,890
views
views
70
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
2,729
views
views
71
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
2,703
views
views
72
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
2,686
views
views
73
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
2,679
views
views
74
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
2,665
views
views
75
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
2,649
views
views
76
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
2,634
views
views
77
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
2,540
views
views
78
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
2,487
views
views
79
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
2,446
views
views
80
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
2,434
views
views
81
Nigel Braun
Canadian YouTuber (born 1991)
2,431
views
views
82
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
2,408
views
views
83
Rake Yohn
American television personality
2,381
views
views
84
Yitzhak Apeloig
scholar
2,294
views
views
85
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
2,284
views
views
86
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
2,274
views
views
87
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
2,261
views
views
88
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
2,253
views
views
89
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
2,189
views
views
90
Alice Augusta Ball
African American chemist (1892–1916)
2,172
views
views
91
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
2,158
views
views
92
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian biochemist
2,140
views
views
93
Eli Lilly
American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist
2,140
views
views
94
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
2,125
views
views
95
Johanna Budwig
German biochemist (1908–2003)
2,096
views
views
96
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
2,079
views
views
97
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
2,035
views
views
98
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
2,030
views
views
99
Peter Douglas
American film producer
2,014
views
views
100
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Spanish scientist (1852-1934)
2,003
views
views
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