Trending Chemists in Japan this year
The 100 most-viewed chemists this year on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.
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17,312
Total Views (this year)
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1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
1,468
views
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2
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948β1997)
967
views
views
3
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925β2013)
684
views
views
4
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
672
views
views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
616
views
views
6
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936β2025)
551
views
views
7
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
494
views
views
8
Masaru Kitano
Japanese tarento and chemist
448
views
views
9
Koichi Tanaka
Japanese chemist
442
views
views
10
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920β1992)
412
views
views
11
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
325
views
views
12
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493β1541)
318
views
views
13
Satoshi Εmura
Japanese biochemist, microbiologist, and university teacher (born 1935)
312
views
views
14
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833β1896)
302
views
views
15
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
276
views
views
16
Tasuku Honjo
Japanese professor of immunology and genomic medicine (1942β)
266
views
views
17
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
257
views
views
18
William Smith Clark
American chemist, soldier, botanist and university teacher (1826 β 1886)
247
views
views
19
Max Joseph von Pettenkofer
Bavarian chemist and hygienist (1818β1901)
229
views
views
20
Rebecca Chambers
Resident Evil fictional character
229
views
views
21
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
227
views
views
22
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
217
views
views
23
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
208
views
views
24
Akira Yoshino
Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
199
views
views
25
Mamoru Mohri
Japanese astronaut
197
views
views
26
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843β1910)
188
views
views
27
Kazuko Matsumoto
Japanese chemist (1949-)
182
views
views
28
Susumu Kitagawa
Japanese chemist
179
views
views
29
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
174
views
views
30
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
169
views
views
31
RyΕji Noyori
Japanese chemist (1938 - )
169
views
views
32
Takamine JΕkichi
Japanese chemist (1854β1922)
165
views
views
33
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928β2025)
161
views
views
34
KuRaRe
Japanese writer and chemist
160
views
views
35
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
158
views
views
36
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
140
views
views
37
Osamu Shimomura
Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist (1928β2018)
139
views
views
38
Chulabhorn, Princess Srisavangavadhana
Thai princess
139
views
views
39
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
139
views
views
40
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766β1844)
138
views
views
41
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881β1955)
127
views
views
42
UmetarΕ Suzuki
Japanese agricultural chemist (1874-1943)
121
views
views
43
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
121
views
views
44
Susumu Tonegawa
Japanese biologist (1939 - )
120
views
views
45
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833β1887)
118
views
views
46
Nagai Nagayoshi
Japanese pharmacologist
110
views
views
47
Kikunae Ikeda
Japanese chemist (1864β1936)
110
views
views
48
Sahachiro Hata
Japanese bacteriologist (1873-1938)
110
views
views
49
YΕ«suke Nakamura
medical researcher in Japan
109
views
views
50
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
102
views
views
51
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
100
views
views
52
Kazunori Yamanoi
Japanese politician
99
views
views
53
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
95
views
views
54
Kenichi Fukui
Japanese chemist (1918β1998)
95
views
views
55
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
94
views
views
56
Hideki Shirakawa
Japanese scientist (1936-)
90
views
views
57
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
90
views
views
58
Masatoshi Shima
Japanese computer pioneer
87
views
views
59
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906β2008)
83
views
views
60
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900β1958)
78
views
views
61
Akira Suzuki
Japanese chemist (1930 - )
76
views
views
62
Katsuko Saruhashi
Japanese geochemist (1920β2007)
74
views
views
63
Michikazu Hara
researcher
73
views
views
64
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
72
views
views
65
Keiko Nakamura
Japanese biochemist
71
views
views
66
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889β1944)
71
views
views
67
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
69
views
views
68
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
69
views
views
69
Henry Cavendish
English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731β1810)
68
views
views
70
Kazutoshi Mori
molecular biologist (ORCID 0000-0001-7378-4019)
67
views
views
71
Tsutomu Miyasaka
Japanese chemist (1953-)
67
views
views
72
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
66
views
views
73
Carl Bosch
German chemical engineer (1874β1940)
66
views
views
74
Ei-ichi Negishi
Japanese chemist (1935 - 2021)
65
views
views
75
Wallace Carothers
American organic chemist (1896β1937)
64
views
views
76
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
64
views
views
77
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871β1937)
63
views
views
78
Udagawa YΕan
Japanese scientist (1798 - 1846)
60
views
views
79
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
55
views
views
80
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919β1987)
55
views
views
81
Osamu Hayaishi
Japanese biochemist (1920β2015)
54
views
views
82
Sumio Iijima
Japanese physicist, chemist, and nanotechnologist (born 1939)
53
views
views
83
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
53
views
views
84
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
52
views
views
85
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
51
views
views
86
Zhang Zhongjing
a physician and pharmacologist (150β219), hailed as medical sage, from Eastern Han Dynasty, China
50
views
views
87
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
49
views
views
88
RyΕhei Mori
Japanese chemist
48
views
views
89
Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852β1908)
48
views
views
90
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
48
views
views
91
Kinichiro Sakaguchi
Japanese microbiologist and mycologist
46
views
views
92
Katalin KarikΓ³
Hungarian biochemist
46
views
views
93
Utsunomiya SaburΕ
Japanese chemical engineer
46
views
views
94
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944β2019)
46
views
views
95
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
45
views
views
96
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
45
views
views
97
Chika Kuroda
Japanese chemist
45
views
views
98
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
44
views
views
99
Ogawa Masataka
Japanese chemist (1865-1930)
44
views
views
100
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917β2003)
42
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