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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
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1
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452βˆ’1519)
πŸ“š 55 citations Person
1,468
views
2
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
967
views
3
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
πŸ“š 53 citations Person
684
views
4
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
πŸ“š 72 citations Person
672
views
5
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
616
views
6
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
πŸ“š 51 citations Person
551
views
7
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
494
views
8
Masaru Kitano
Japanese tarento and chemist
Person
448
views
9
Koichi Tanaka
Japanese chemist
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
442
views
10
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
πŸ“š 80 citations Person
412
views
11
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
325
views
12
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
318
views
13
Satoshi Ōmura
Japanese biochemist, microbiologist, and university teacher (born 1935)
πŸ“š 25 citations Person
312
views
14
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
302
views
15
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
πŸ“š 133 citations Person
276
views
16
Tasuku Honjo
Japanese professor of immunology and genomic medicine (1942–)
πŸ“š 24 citations Person
266
views
17
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
πŸ“š 67 citations Person
257
views
18
William Smith Clark
William Smith Clark
American chemist, soldier, botanist and university teacher (1826 – 1886)
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
247
views
19
Max Joseph von Pettenkofer
Max Joseph von Pettenkofer
Bavarian chemist and hygienist (1818–1901)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
229
views
20
Rebecca Chambers
Resident Evil fictional character
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
229
views
21
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
πŸ“š 12 citations Person
227
views
22
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
217
views
23
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
208
views
24
Akira Yoshino
Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
199
views
25
Mamoru Mohri
Mamoru Mohri
Japanese astronaut
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
197
views
26
Robert Koch
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
188
views
27
Kazuko Matsumoto
Japanese chemist (1949-)
Person
182
views
28
Susumu Kitagawa
Japanese chemist
πŸ“š 11 citations Person
179
views
29
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
174
views
30
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
169
views
31
Ryōji Noyori
Japanese chemist (1938 - )
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
169
views
32
Takamine Jōkichi
Japanese chemist (1854–1922)
πŸ“š 11 citations Person
165
views
33
James Watson
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
161
views
34
KuRaRe
Japanese writer and chemist
Person
160
views
35
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
158
views
36
James Watt
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
140
views
37
Osamu Shimomura
Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist (1928–2018)
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
139
views
38
Chulabhorn, Princess Srisavangavadhana
Thai princess
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
139
views
39
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
πŸ“š 74 citations Person
139
views
40
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
138
views
41
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
127
views
42
Umetarō Suzuki
Umetarō Suzuki
Japanese agricultural chemist (1874-1943)
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
121
views
43
Louis Slotin
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
121
views
44
Susumu Tonegawa
Japanese biologist (1939 - )
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
120
views
45
Alexander Borodin
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
118
views
46
Nagai Nagayoshi
Japanese pharmacologist
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
110
views
47
Kikunae Ikeda
Kikunae Ikeda
Japanese chemist (1864–1936)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
110
views
48
Sahachiro Hata
Sahachiro Hata
Japanese bacteriologist (1873-1938)
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
110
views
49
YΕ«suke Nakamura
medical researcher in Japan
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
109
views
50
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
102
views
51
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
100
views
52
Kazunori Yamanoi
Japanese politician
Person
99
views
53
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
95
views
54
Kenichi Fukui
Kenichi Fukui
Japanese chemist (1918–1998)
πŸ“š 25 citations Person
95
views
55
Amedeo Avogadro
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
πŸ“š 22 citations Person
94
views
56
Hideki Shirakawa
Japanese scientist (1936-)
πŸ“š 11 citations Person
90
views
57
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
90
views
58
Masatoshi Shima
Japanese computer pioneer
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
87
views
59
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
πŸ“š 23 citations Person
83
views
60
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
78
views
61
Akira Suzuki
Japanese chemist (1930 - )
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
76
views
62
Katsuko Saruhashi
Katsuko Saruhashi
Japanese geochemist (1920–2007)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
74
views
63
Michikazu Hara
researcher
Person
73
views
64
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
72
views
65
Keiko Nakamura
Japanese biochemist
Person
71
views
66
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
71
views
67
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
69
views
68
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
69
views
69
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
68
views
70
Kazutoshi Mori
molecular biologist (ORCID 0000-0001-7378-4019)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
67
views
71
Tsutomu Miyasaka
Japanese chemist (1953-)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
67
views
72
Avicenna
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
66
views
73
Carl Bosch
Carl Bosch
German chemical engineer (1874–1940)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
66
views
74
Ei-ichi Negishi
Japanese chemist (1935 - 2021)
πŸ“š 27 citations Person
65
views
75
Wallace Carothers
Wallace Carothers
American organic chemist (1896–1937)
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
64
views
76
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
64
views
77
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
63
views
78
Udagawa Yōan
Japanese scientist (1798 - 1846)
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
60
views
79
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
πŸ“š 31 citations Person
55
views
80
Primo Levi
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
55
views
81
Osamu Hayaishi
Japanese biochemist (1920–2015)
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
54
views
82
Sumio Iijima
Japanese physicist, chemist, and nanotechnologist (born 1939)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
53
views
83
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
53
views
84
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
52
views
85
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
51
views
86
Zhang Zhongjing
a physician and pharmacologist (150–219), hailed as medical sage, from Eastern Han Dynasty, China
πŸ“š 13 citations Person
50
views
87
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
49
views
88
Ryōhei Mori
Japanese chemist
Person
48
views
89
Henri Becquerel
Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
48
views
90
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
48
views
91
Kinichiro Sakaguchi
Japanese microbiologist and mycologist
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
46
views
92
Katalin KarikΓ³
Hungarian biochemist
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
46
views
93
Utsunomiya Saburō
Japanese chemical engineer
Person
46
views
94
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
πŸ“š 27 citations Person
46
views
95
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
45
views
96
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
45
views
97
Chika Kuroda
Chika Kuroda
Japanese chemist
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
45
views
98
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
44
views
99
Ogawa Masataka
Ogawa Masataka
Japanese chemist (1865-1930)
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
44
views
100
Ilya Prigogine
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
42
views