Trending Chemists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed chemists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Margaret Thatcher.
100
Ranked
1,032,330
Total Views (this year)
1
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
102,066
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2
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
57,286
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views
3
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
53,274
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views
4
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
51,815
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views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
51,480
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views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
51,076
views
views
7
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
29,543
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views
8
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
25,983
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views
9
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
23,170
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views
10
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
21,551
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views
11
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
21,468
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views
12
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
15,042
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views
13
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
14,815
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views
14
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
14,566
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views
15
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
13,145
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views
16
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
13,021
views
views
17
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
12,406
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views
18
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
12,216
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views
19
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
11,937
views
views
20
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
11,704
views
views
21
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
11,654
views
views
22
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
11,144
views
views
23
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
11,057
views
views
24
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
10,835
views
views
25
Rake Yohn
American television personality
10,569
views
views
26
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
10,531
views
views
27
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
10,327
views
views
28
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
9,652
views
views
29
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
9,438
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views
30
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
9,149
views
views
31
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
8,565
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views
32
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
8,299
views
views
33
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
8,106
views
views
34
Craig Venter
American biotechnologist and businessman (1946–2026)
7,848
views
views
35
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
7,832
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views
36
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
7,792
views
views
37
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
7,700
views
views
38
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
7,616
views
views
39
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
7,421
views
views
40
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
6,962
views
views
41
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
6,886
views
views
42
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
6,427
views
views
43
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
6,409
views
views
44
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
5,678
views
views
45
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
5,463
views
views
46
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
5,302
views
views
47
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
5,207
views
views
48
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
5,186
views
views
49
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
5,050
views
views
50
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
4,968
views
views
51
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
4,963
views
views
52
James Smithson
British chemist
4,818
views
views
53
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
4,739
views
views
54
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
4,731
views
views
55
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
4,646
views
views
56
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
4,495
views
views
57
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
4,460
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views
58
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
4,432
views
views
59
Harsha Bhogle
Indian cricket commentator
4,399
views
views
60
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
4,399
views
views
61
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
4,396
views
views
62
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
4,304
views
views
63
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
4,259
views
views
64
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
4,252
views
views
65
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
4,131
views
views
66
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
4,122
views
views
67
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
4,104
views
views
68
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
4,005
views
views
69
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
3,993
views
views
70
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
3,912
views
views
71
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
3,853
views
views
72
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
3,792
views
views
73
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
3,757
views
views
74
Peter Douglas
American film producer
3,710
views
views
75
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
3,628
views
views
76
Chulabhorn, Princess Srisavangavadhana
Thai princess
3,628
views
views
77
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
3,608
views
views
78
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
3,577
views
views
79
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
3,576
views
views
80
Eli Lilly
American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist
3,450
views
views
81
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
3,433
views
views
82
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
3,324
views
views
83
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
3,322
views
views
84
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
3,236
views
views
85
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
3,201
views
views
86
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
3,144
views
views
87
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
3,131
views
views
88
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist (born 1962)
3,097
views
views
89
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
3,066
views
views
90
Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006)
3,062
views
views
91
Jeffrey Wigand
American whistleblower, tobacco company executive
3,045
views
views
92
Nigel Braun
Canadian YouTuber (born 1991)
3,015
views
views
93
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
3,012
views
views
94
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
3,001
views
views
95
Margaret Beckett
British politician (born 1943)
2,965
views
views
96
Frank Olson
American chemist (1910-1953)
2,953
views
views
97
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
2,935
views
views
98
Humphry Davy
British chemist
2,913
views
views
99
Lucius Fox
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
2,851
views
views
100
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
2,848
views
views
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