Trending Chemists in USA this month
The 100 most-viewed chemists this month on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Margaret Thatcher.
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Ranked
704,966
Total Views (this month)
1
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
77,294
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2
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
41,130
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views
3
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
36,745
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views
4
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
33,289
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views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
31,929
views
views
6
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
30,522
views
views
7
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
20,506
views
views
8
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
19,822
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views
9
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
19,716
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views
10
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
15,022
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views
11
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
12,470
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views
12
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
10,233
views
views
13
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
10,150
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views
14
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
10,044
views
views
15
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
9,592
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views
16
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
9,528
views
views
17
Rake Yohn
American television personality
9,076
views
views
18
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
8,472
views
views
19
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
7,967
views
views
20
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
7,902
views
views
21
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
7,679
views
views
22
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
7,615
views
views
23
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
7,269
views
views
24
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
7,112
views
views
25
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
7,008
views
views
26
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
6,985
views
views
27
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
6,478
views
views
28
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
6,473
views
views
29
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
6,447
views
views
30
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
6,272
views
views
31
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
6,149
views
views
32
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
5,873
views
views
33
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
5,871
views
views
34
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
5,809
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views
35
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
5,441
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views
36
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
5,159
views
views
37
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
5,114
views
views
38
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
4,532
views
views
39
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
4,446
views
views
40
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
4,402
views
views
41
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
4,398
views
views
42
James Smithson
British chemist
4,384
views
views
43
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
3,941
views
views
44
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
3,791
views
views
45
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
3,649
views
views
46
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
3,555
views
views
47
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
3,539
views
views
48
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
3,457
views
views
49
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
3,457
views
views
50
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
3,361
views
views
51
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
3,314
views
views
52
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
3,213
views
views
53
Chulabhorn, Princess Srisavangavadhana
Thai princess
3,202
views
views
54
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
3,197
views
views
55
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
3,183
views
views
56
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
3,117
views
views
57
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
3,002
views
views
58
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
2,970
views
views
59
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
2,919
views
views
60
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
2,884
views
views
61
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
2,807
views
views
62
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
2,795
views
views
63
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
2,776
views
views
64
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
2,765
views
views
65
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
2,761
views
views
66
Peter Douglas
American film producer
2,695
views
views
67
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
2,677
views
views
68
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
2,646
views
views
69
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
2,603
views
views
70
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
2,597
views
views
71
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
2,537
views
views
72
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
2,528
views
views
73
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
2,524
views
views
74
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist (born 1962)
2,481
views
views
75
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
2,477
views
views
76
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
2,432
views
views
77
Eli Lilly
American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist
2,430
views
views
78
Margaret Beckett
British politician (born 1943)
2,401
views
views
79
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
2,376
views
views
80
Donella Meadows
American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer (1941–2001)
2,328
views
views
81
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
2,313
views
views
82
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
2,294
views
views
83
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922–1995)
2,284
views
views
84
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
2,257
views
views
85
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
2,223
views
views
86
Jeffrey Wigand
American whistleblower, tobacco company executive
2,131
views
views
87
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
2,131
views
views
88
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
2,105
views
views
89
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
2,053
views
views
90
Lucius Fox
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
2,035
views
views
91
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
2,014
views
views
92
Humphry Davy
British chemist
1,996
views
views
93
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
1,988
views
views
94
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
1,948
views
views
95
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
1,945
views
views
96
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
1,945
views
views
97
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
1,907
views
views
98
Frank Olson
American chemist (1910-1953)
1,905
views
views
99
Thérèse Coffey
British politician
1,896
views
views
100
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
1,884
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views
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