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Trending Chemists in Japan this month

The 100 most-viewed chemists this month on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.

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1
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452βˆ’1519)
πŸ“š 55 citations Person
981
views
2
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
960
views
3
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
πŸ“š 53 citations Person
488
views
4
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
πŸ“š 72 citations Person
423
views
5
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
394
views
6
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
290
views
7
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
πŸ“š 80 citations Person
251
views
8
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
πŸ“š 51 citations Person
230
views
9
Koichi Tanaka
Japanese chemist
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
228
views
10
Max Joseph von Pettenkofer
Max Joseph von Pettenkofer
Bavarian chemist and hygienist (1818–1901)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
216
views
11
Masaru Kitano
Japanese tarento and chemist
Person
214
views
12
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
203
views
13
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
198
views
14
Satoshi Ōmura
Japanese biochemist, microbiologist, and university teacher (born 1935)
πŸ“š 25 citations Person
193
views
15
Tasuku Honjo
Japanese professor of immunology and genomic medicine (1942–)
πŸ“š 24 citations Person
184
views
16
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
180
views
17
Kazuko Matsumoto
Japanese chemist (1949-)
Person
180
views
18
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
πŸ“š 67 citations Person
179
views
19
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
πŸ“š 133 citations Person
178
views
20
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
167
views
21
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
167
views
22
William Smith Clark
William Smith Clark
American chemist, soldier, botanist and university teacher (1826 – 1886)
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
147
views
23
Akira Yoshino
Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
142
views
24
Rebecca Chambers
Resident Evil fictional character
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
133
views
25
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
πŸ“š 12 citations Person
126
views
26
Robert Koch
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
126
views
27
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
125
views
28
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
122
views
29
James Watson
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
121
views
30
Mamoru Mohri
Mamoru Mohri
Japanese astronaut
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
120
views
31
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
117
views
32
Takamine Jōkichi
Japanese chemist (1854–1922)
πŸ“š 11 citations Person
115
views
33
Ryōji Noyori
Japanese chemist (1938 - )
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
105
views
34
KuRaRe
Japanese writer and chemist
Person
105
views
35
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
104
views
36
Susumu Kitagawa
Japanese chemist
πŸ“š 11 citations Person
101
views
37
Osamu Shimomura
Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist (1928–2018)
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
97
views
38
James Watt
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
93
views
39
YΕ«suke Nakamura
medical researcher in Japan
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
88
views
40
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
88
views
41
Umetarō Suzuki
Umetarō Suzuki
Japanese agricultural chemist (1874-1943)
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
81
views
42
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
πŸ“š 74 citations Person
80
views
43
Amedeo Avogadro
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
πŸ“š 22 citations Person
75
views
44
Susumu Tonegawa
Japanese biologist (1939 - )
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
75
views
45
Nagai Nagayoshi
Japanese pharmacologist
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
73
views
46
Alexander Borodin
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
68
views
47
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
66
views
48
Hideki Shirakawa
Japanese scientist (1936-)
πŸ“š 11 citations Person
65
views
49
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
63
views
50
Kikunae Ikeda
Kikunae Ikeda
Japanese chemist (1864–1936)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
63
views
51
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
62
views
52
Kenichi Fukui
Kenichi Fukui
Japanese chemist (1918–1998)
πŸ“š 25 citations Person
60
views
53
Kazunori Yamanoi
Japanese politician
Person
59
views
54
Louis Slotin
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
59
views
55
Masatoshi Shima
Japanese computer pioneer
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
54
views
56
Tsutomu Miyasaka
Japanese chemist (1953-)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
53
views
57
Osamu Hayaishi
Japanese biochemist (1920–2015)
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
52
views
58
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
51
views
59
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
48
views
60
Katsuko Saruhashi
Katsuko Saruhashi
Japanese geochemist (1920–2007)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
48
views
61
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
47
views
62
Carl Bosch
Carl Bosch
German chemical engineer (1874–1940)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
46
views
63
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
45
views
64
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
44
views
65
Chulabhorn, Princess Srisavangavadhana
Thai princess
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
43
views
66
Wallace Carothers
Wallace Carothers
American organic chemist (1896–1937)
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
43
views
67
Utsunomiya Saburō
Japanese chemical engineer
Person
43
views
68
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
42
views
69
Akira Suzuki
Japanese chemist (1930 - )
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
42
views
70
Kinichiro Sakaguchi
Japanese microbiologist and mycologist
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
40
views
71
Zhang Zhongjing
a physician and pharmacologist (150–219), hailed as medical sage, from Eastern Han Dynasty, China
πŸ“š 13 citations Person
40
views
72
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
39
views
73
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
39
views
74
Ryōhei Mori
Japanese chemist
Person
39
views
75
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
38
views
76
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
37
views
77
Sumio Iijima
Japanese physicist, chemist, and nanotechnologist (born 1939)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
37
views
78
Kazutoshi Mori
molecular biologist (ORCID 0000-0001-7378-4019)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
36
views
79
Keiko Nakamura
Japanese biochemist
Person
36
views
80
Primo Levi
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
35
views
81
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
πŸ“š 27 citations Person
35
views
82
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
35
views
83
Udagawa Yōan
Japanese scientist (1798 - 1846)
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
35
views
84
Ei-ichi Negishi
Japanese chemist (1935 - 2021)
πŸ“š 27 citations Person
34
views
85
Masaya Sawamura
Japanese chemist
Person
34
views
86
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
34
views
87
Ilya Prigogine
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
33
views
88
Humphry Davy
Humphry Davy
British chemist
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
33
views
89
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
πŸ“š 23 citations Person
33
views
90
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
31
views
91
Chika Kuroda
Chika Kuroda
Japanese chemist
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
30
views
92
Akira Endō
Japanese agricultural chemist and biochemist (1933 - 2024)
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
30
views
93
August KekulΓ©
August KekulΓ©
German organic chemist (1829–1896)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
30
views
94
Hans Christian Ørsted
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
29
views
95
Katalin KarikΓ³
Hungarian biochemist
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
29
views
96
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
29
views
97
Karl Barry Sharpless
American chemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1941)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
28
views
98
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
28
views
99
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
27
views
100
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
27
views