Trending Chemists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed chemists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Margaret Thatcher.
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Ranked
243,926
Total Views (this year)
1
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
17,420
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views
2
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
15,218
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views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
13,858
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views
4
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
13,476
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views
5
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
12,194
views
views
6
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
11,618
views
views
7
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
10,530
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views
8
Craig Venter
American biotechnologist and businessman (1946–2026)
7,618
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views
9
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
7,102
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views
10
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
5,219
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views
11
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
4,568
views
views
12
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
3,921
views
views
13
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
3,508
views
views
14
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
3,447
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views
15
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
3,379
views
views
16
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
3,205
views
views
17
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
2,885
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views
18
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
2,885
views
views
19
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
2,863
views
views
20
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
2,808
views
views
21
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
2,749
views
views
22
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
2,572
views
views
23
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
2,477
views
views
24
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
2,428
views
views
25
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
2,036
views
views
26
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
2,000
views
views
27
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
1,948
views
views
28
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
1,894
views
views
29
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
1,888
views
views
30
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
1,881
views
views
31
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
1,846
views
views
32
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
1,830
views
views
33
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
1,791
views
views
34
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
1,787
views
views
35
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
1,667
views
views
36
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
1,616
views
views
37
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
1,586
views
views
38
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
1,555
views
views
39
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
1,551
views
views
40
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
1,526
views
views
41
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
1,492
views
views
42
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
1,459
views
views
43
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
1,437
views
views
44
Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte
Spanish biochemist
1,435
views
views
45
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
1,429
views
views
46
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
1,414
views
views
47
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
1,411
views
views
48
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
1,391
views
views
49
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
1,267
views
views
50
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
1,259
views
views
51
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
1,213
views
views
52
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
1,210
views
views
53
Rake Yohn
American television personality
1,208
views
views
54
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
1,193
views
views
55
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
1,183
views
views
56
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
1,175
views
views
57
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
1,141
views
views
58
Nigel Braun
Canadian YouTuber (born 1991)
1,112
views
views
59
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
1,066
views
views
60
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,022
views
views
61
Charles M. Lieber
American chemist (1959-)
1,020
views
views
62
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
1,016
views
views
63
Johanna Budwig
German biochemist (1908–2003)
1,008
views
views
64
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
982
views
views
65
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
960
views
views
66
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
930
views
views
67
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
920
views
views
68
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
908
views
views
69
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
905
views
views
70
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
902
views
views
71
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
870
views
views
72
James Tour
American chemist and creationist
847
views
views
73
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
847
views
views
74
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
829
views
views
75
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
825
views
views
76
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
819
views
views
77
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
807
views
views
78
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
805
views
views
79
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
805
views
views
80
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
787
views
views
81
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
787
views
views
82
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
782
views
views
83
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
778
views
views
84
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
773
views
views
85
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
763
views
views
86
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
761
views
views
87
Eli Lilly
American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist
761
views
views
88
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian biochemist
747
views
views
89
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
745
views
views
90
Frank Olson
American chemist (1910-1953)
744
views
views
91
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
706
views
views
92
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
706
views
views
93
Humphry Davy
British chemist
703
views
views
94
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
678
views
views
95
Henry Cavendish
English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
645
views
views
96
Frances Arnold
Nobel prize winning US scientist and engineer (born 1956)
643
views
views
97
Fred Chase Koch
American chemical engineer and entrepreneur (1900–1967)
641
views
views
98
Abu Bakr al-Razi
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
638
views
views
99
Jeffrey Wigand
American whistleblower, tobacco company executive
636
views
views
100
Peter Douglas
American film producer
630
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