Trending Chemists in Germany — September 2026

1

Angela Merkel

chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)

📚 133 citations 📰 36 stories · 10 sources

60,128
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2

Katherina Reiche

German politician

📚 17 citations 📰 2 stories · 2 sources

54,159
views

3

Frauke Petry

German politician

📚 19 citations

41,131
views

4

Marie Curie

Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)

📚 72 citations 📰 7 stories · 3 sources

25,528
views

5

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

📚 55 citations

20,728
views

6

Lise Meitner

Austrian-Swedish physicist

📚 38 citations

18,124
views

7

Pope Francis

266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)

📚 51 citations 📰 140 stories · 13 sources

14,003
views

8

Margaret Thatcher

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990

📚 53 citations 📰 54 stories · 12 sources

13,034
views

9

Dolph Lundgren

Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)

📚 17 citations

12,203
views

10

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)

📚 54 citations 📰 7 stories · 2 sources

12,130
views

11

Robert Ley

German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)

📚 26 citations

11,474
views

12

Walter Osswald

Portuguese chemist

11,346
views

13

Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim

German chemist, science journalist and television presenter

📚 22 citations

8,988
views

14

Paracelsus

Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)

📚 30 citations

8,135
views

15

Yasmin Fahimi

German politician

📚 12 citations

7,870
views

16

Isaac Asimov

American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)

📚 80 citations

7,837
views

17

Fritz Preuss

German chemist and politician

7,500
views

18

Robert Koch

German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)

📚 43 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

6,741
views

19

Günther Tölg

German chemist

6,585
views

20

Sebastian Lege

German chef and TV personality

6,014
views

21

Avicenna

Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)

📚 44 citations

5,911
views

22

Valery Legasov

Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)

📚 8 citations

5,756
views

23

Otto Hahn

German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)

📚 34 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

5,553
views

24

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch

📚 25 citations

5,380
views

25

Fritz Haber

German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)

📚 33 citations

5,359
views

26

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

📚 67 citations

5,231
views

27

Joachim Sauer

German chemist and former Second Gentleman of Germany

📚 13 citations

5,169
views

28

Alfred Nobel

Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)

📚 33 citations 📰 9 stories · 3 sources

5,070
views

29

Niels Bohr

Danish physicist (1885–1962)

📚 74 citations

5,026
views

30

Harald Ringstorff

German politician (1939–2020)

📚 8 citations

4,960
views

31

Johann von Löwenstern-Kunckel

Swedish noble and chemist

📚 14 citations

4,694
views

32

Karen Wetterhahn

American chemist (1948–1997)

📚 2 citations

4,084
views

33

Alexander Fleming

Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)

📚 38 citations 📰 2 stories · 2 sources

4,012
views

34

Rosalind Franklin

British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)

📚 26 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

3,985
views

35

Leo Rudolf Raubal

Adolf Hitler's nephew (1906–1977)

📚 3 citations

3,946
views

36

Rudolf Wild

German businessman (1904–1995)

3,503
views

37

Justus von Liebig

German chemist (1803-1873)

📚 37 citations

3,501
views

38

Otmar von Verschuer

German military physician, geneticist and biochemist (1896-1969)

📚 11 citations

3,029
views

39

Elias Canetti

Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)

📚 41 citations

2,996
views

40

Paul Ehrlich

Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)

📚 31 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

2,920
views

41

Albertus Magnus

German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)

📚 40 citations

2,896
views

42

Omar M. Yaghi

American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)

📚 28 citations

2,801
views

43

Carl Bosch

German chemical engineer (1874–1940)

📚 19 citations

2,721
views

44

Albert Hofmann

Swiss chemist (1906–2008)

📚 23 citations

2,709
views

45

Robert Havemann

German chemist and dissident (1910–1982)

📚 16 citations

2,701
views

46

Alessandro Volta

Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)

📚 30 citations

2,694
views

47

Rafik Schami

Syrian-German writer and chemist (born 1946)

📚 18 citations

2,560
views

48

Fritz Vahrenholt

German politician and climate change denier (born 1949)

📚 8 citations

2,505
views

49

Michael Faraday

British scientist (1791–1867)

📚 49 citations

2,422
views

50

Karina Reiss

German biology researcher (1974-)

2,332
views

51

Linus Pauling

American scientist (1901–1994)

📚 70 citations

2,330
views

52

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

📚 38 citations

2,310
views

53

The Joker

fictional character throughout the DC Universe

📚 12 citations

2,304
views

54

James Watt

British engineer (1736–1819)

📚 37 citations

2,301
views

55

Ludwig Boltzmann

Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)

📚 29 citations

2,229
views

56

Irène Joliot-Curie

French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)

📚 40 citations

2,224
views

57

Primo Levi

Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)

📚 39 citations

2,116
views

58

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist (1834–1907)

📚 34 citations

2,032
views

59

Louis Slotin

Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)

📚 5 citations

1,992
views

60

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)

📚 15 citations

1,896
views

61

Rainer Kraft

German politician

📚 7 citations

1,890
views

62

Ernest Rutherford

New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)

📚 46 citations

1,877
views

63

Christian Rätsch

German ethnopharmacologist, anthropologist, author (1957–2022)

📚 14 citations

1,841
views

64

Thomas Midgley

American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)

📚 15 citations

1,804
views

65

Pierre Curie

French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)

📚 49 citations

1,796
views

66

August Oetker

German food scientist (1862-1918)

📚 7 citations

1,790
views

67

Joseph von Fraunhofer

Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer

📚 21 citations

1,782
views

68

Samuel Hahnemann

German physician known for creating homeopathy

📚 21 citations

1,749
views

69

John Dalton

British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)

📚 26 citations

1,745
views

70

Elena Ceaușescu

Romanian politician (1919–1989)

📚 8 citations

1,734
views

71

Markus Blocher

Swiss entrepreneur

📚 1 citation

1,730
views

72

Benjamin List

German chemist (1968-)

📚 13 citations

1,672
views

73

Ivan Pavlov

Russian physiologist (1849–1936)

📚 45 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

1,640
views

74

James Watson

American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)

📚 61 citations

1,593
views

75

Hugo Henkel

German industrialist, Nazi party member (1881-1952)

1,542
views

76

Oliver Sacks

British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)

📚 33 citations

1,541
views

77

Chaim Weizmann

Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)

📚 24 citations

1,491
views

78

Clara Immerwahr

German chemist (1870-1915)

📚 12 citations

1,489
views

79

Otto Heinrich Warburg

German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)

📚 22 citations

1,462
views

80

Karamba Diaby

German politician

📚 12 citations

1,458
views

81

Anders Celsius

Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)

📚 20 citations

1,428
views

82

Lex Luthor

fictional character in DC Comics

📚 5 citations 📰 2 stories · 2 sources

1,412
views

83

Bane

fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain

📚 2 citations

1,403
views

84

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)

📚 42 citations

1,358
views

85

Johann Friedrich Böttger

Saxon alchemist (1682-1719)

📚 15 citations

1,337
views

86

Carl Auer von Welsbach

Austrian scientist and inventor (1858-1929)

📚 15 citations

1,313
views

87

Emil Fischer

German chemist (1852–1919)

📚 23 citations

1,299
views

88

Antoine Lavoisier

French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)

📚 37 citations

1,292
views

89

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)

📚 26 citations

1,283
views

90

Robert Bunsen

German chemist (1811-1899)

📚 41 citations

1,279
views

91

Markus Kamieth

CEO of BASF, German manager

1,244
views

92

Heinz Riesenhuber

German politician (CDU)

📚 17 citations

1,201
views

93

Knut Löschke

German chemist and university teacher

1,195
views

94

Wolfgang A. Herrmann

German chemist

1,193
views

95

Friedrich Hund

German physicist (1896-1997)

📚 22 citations

1,172
views

96

Heinrich Thyssen

German-Hungarian entrepreneur and art collector (1875-1947)

📚 19 citations

1,171
views

97

Karl Landsteiner

Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate

📚 23 citations

1,158
views

98

Georgius Agricola

German physician and mineralogist (1494-1555)

📚 18 citations

1,149
views

99

Stefan Hockertz

1,126
views

100

André-Marie Ampère

French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)

📚 37 citations

1,096
views