Trending Chemists in Japan — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed chemists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
321,116
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
28,022
views
views
2
Koichi Tanaka
Japanese chemist
16,025
views
views
3
Tasuku Honjo
Japanese professor of immunology and genomic medicine (1942–)
13,892
views
views
4
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
13,017
views
views
5
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
12,991
views
views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
9,597
views
views
7
Kazutoshi Mori
molecular biologist (ORCID 0000-0001-7378-4019)
9,393
views
views
8
Masaru Kitano
Japanese tarento and chemist
8,292
views
views
9
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
7,856
views
views
10
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
7,240
views
views
11
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
6,673
views
views
12
Mamoru Mohri
Japanese astronaut
6,387
views
views
13
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
6,173
views
views
14
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
6,008
views
views
15
Hideki Shirakawa
Japanese scientist (1936–2026)
5,784
views
views
16
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
5,680
views
views
17
Akira Yoshino
Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
5,635
views
views
18
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
5,109
views
views
19
Susumu Tonegawa
Japanese biologist, neuroscientist (1939–2026)
5,093
views
views
20
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
4,821
views
views
21
Satoshi Ōmura
Japanese biochemist, microbiologist, and university teacher (born 1935)
4,701
views
views
22
William Smith Clark
American chemist, soldier, botanist and university teacher (1826 – 1886)
4,681
views
views
23
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
4,014
views
views
24
Elena Ceaușescu
Romanian politician (1919–1989)
3,941
views
views
25
Kazunori Yamanoi
Japanese politician
3,872
views
views
26
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
3,829
views
views
27
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
3,331
views
views
28
Susumu Kitagawa
Japanese chemist
3,315
views
views
29
Sumio Iijima
Japanese physicist, chemist, and nanotechnologist (born 1939)
3,053
views
views
30
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
2,670
views
views
31
Ryōji Noyori
Japanese chemist (1938 - )
2,635
views
views
32
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
2,531
views
views
33
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
2,485
views
views
34
Takamine Jōkichi
Japanese chemist (1854–1922)
2,454
views
views
35
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
2,431
views
views
36
Tsutomu Miyasaka
Japanese chemist (1953-)
2,353
views
views
37
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
2,321
views
views
38
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
2,279
views
views
39
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
2,246
views
views
40
Osamu Shimomura
Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist (1928–2018)
2,179
views
views
41
KuRaRe
Japanese writer and chemist
2,132
views
views
42
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
2,087
views
views
43
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
2,042
views
views
44
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
2,033
views
views
45
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
1,990
views
views
46
Rebecca Chambers
Resident Evil fictional character
1,925
views
views
47
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
1,908
views
views
48
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
1,903
views
views
49
Hideaki Sena
novelist in Japan
1,776
views
views
50
Kikunae Ikeda
Japanese chemist (1864–1936)
1,695
views
views
51
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
1,693
views
views
52
Akira Suzuki
Japanese chemist (1930 - )
1,675
views
views
53
Kenichi Fukui
Japanese chemist (1918–1998)
1,642
views
views
54
Umetarō Suzuki
Japanese agricultural chemist (1874-1943)
1,631
views
views
55
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
1,622
views
views
56
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
1,595
views
views
57
Chulabhorn, Princess Srisavangavadhana
Thai princess
1,578
views
views
58
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
1,490
views
views
59
Max Joseph von Pettenkofer
Bavarian chemist and hygienist (1818–1901)
1,420
views
views
60
Yasutomi Nishizuka
Japanese biologist (1932-2004)
1,391
views
views
61
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004)
1,383
views
views
62
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
1,332
views
views
63
Carl Bosch
German chemical engineer (1874–1940)
1,301
views
views
64
Yūsuke Nakamura
medical researcher in Japan
1,270
views
views
65
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
1,266
views
views
66
Chika Kuroda
Japanese chemist
1,259
views
views
67
Masatoshi Shima
Japanese computer pioneer
1,240
views
views
68
Akira Endō
Japanese agricultural chemist and biochemist (1933 - 2024)
1,237
views
views
69
Nagai Nagayoshi
Japanese pharmacologist
1,213
views
views
70
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,184
views
views
71
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
1,183
views
views
72
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
1,169
views
views
73
Kazunari Dōmen
researcher
1,165
views
views
74
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
1,153
views
views
75
Hiroyuki Ohno
Japanese chemist
1,121
views
views
76
Udagawa Yōan
Japanese scientist (1798 - 1846)
1,120
views
views
77
Ei-ichi Negishi
Japanese chemist (1935 - 2021)
1,097
views
views
78
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
1,089
views
views
79
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
1,085
views
views
80
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
1,000
views
views
81
Katsuko Saruhashi
Japanese geochemist (1920–2007)
984
views
views
82
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
982
views
views
83
Hiroshi Nagase
Japanese chemist (1947-)
952
views
views
84
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
945
views
views
85
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
932
views
views
86
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
921
views
views
87
Akira Fujishima
Japanese chemist
905
views
views
88
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
895
views
views
89
Henry Cavendish
English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
890
views
views
90
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
847
views
views
91
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
846
views
views
92
Shin'ichi Ōkoshi
Japanese chemist
840
views
views
93
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
813
views
views
94
Kenji Kangawa
Japanese biochemical researcher
797
views
views
95
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
790
views
views
96
Kazunori Kataoka
Japanese chemist
761
views
views
97
Keiko Nakamura
Japanese biochemist
751
views
views
98
Hiroaki Suga
Japanese biochemist, university teacher, and businessman (born 1963)
723
views
views
99
Sechi Katō
Japanese chemist
722
views
views
100
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792–1871)
716
views
views
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