Trending Chemists this month
The 100 most-viewed chemists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Dolph Lundgren.
100
Ranked
718,375
Total Views (this month)
1
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
72,692
views
views
2
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
47,527
views
views
3
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
38,778
views
views
4
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
34,933
views
views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
34,268
views
views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
32,820
views
views
7
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
25,840
views
views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
20,658
views
views
9
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
12,213
views
views
10
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
12,179
views
views
11
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
11,684
views
views
12
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
9,648
views
views
13
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
8,886
views
views
14
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
8,762
views
views
15
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
8,732
views
views
16
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
8,566
views
views
17
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
8,492
views
views
18
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
8,114
views
views
19
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
7,590
views
views
20
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
7,580
views
views
21
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
7,557
views
views
22
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
7,200
views
views
23
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
7,067
views
views
24
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
7,065
views
views
25
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
7,031
views
views
26
Pavel Jungwirth
Czech chemist and academic (1966–2026)
6,985
views
views
27
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
6,944
views
views
28
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
6,441
views
views
29
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
6,397
views
views
30
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
6,205
views
views
31
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
6,008
views
views
32
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
5,587
views
views
33
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
5,392
views
views
34
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
5,299
views
views
35
Rake Yohn
American television personality
5,160
views
views
36
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
5,102
views
views
37
Drew Weissman
American physician-scientist (born 1959)
5,016
views
views
38
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
5,003
views
views
39
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
4,993
views
views
40
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
4,662
views
views
41
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
4,636
views
views
42
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
4,506
views
views
43
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
4,465
views
views
44
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
4,430
views
views
45
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
4,362
views
views
46
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
4,351
views
views
47
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
4,197
views
views
48
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
4,150
views
views
49
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
4,095
views
views
50
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
4,033
views
views
51
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
3,853
views
views
52
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
3,672
views
views
53
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
3,564
views
views
54
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
3,548
views
views
55
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
3,541
views
views
56
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
3,494
views
views
57
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
3,410
views
views
58
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
3,293
views
views
59
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
3,262
views
views
60
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
3,232
views
views
61
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
3,134
views
views
62
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
3,097
views
views
63
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,070
views
views
64
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
3,068
views
views
65
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
3,050
views
views
66
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
2,846
views
views
67
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
2,842
views
views
68
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
2,840
views
views
69
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
2,827
views
views
70
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
2,795
views
views
71
John Tukey
American mathematician (1915-2000)
2,767
views
views
72
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
2,741
views
views
73
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
2,688
views
views
74
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
2,664
views
views
75
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
2,553
views
views
76
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
2,553
views
views
77
Peter Douglas
American film producer
2,547
views
views
78
Frank Olson
American chemist (1910-1953)
2,476
views
views
79
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
2,464
views
views
80
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist (1914–2015)
2,452
views
views
81
Lucius Fox
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
2,434
views
views
82
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
2,423
views
views
83
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
2,407
views
views
84
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
2,370
views
views
85
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologist
2,341
views
views
86
Aharon Katzir
Israeli scientist (1913-1972)
2,291
views
views
87
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
2,290
views
views
88
Humphry Davy
British chemist
2,258
views
views
89
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
2,255
views
views
90
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
2,240
views
views
91
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
2,209
views
views
92
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
2,128
views
views
93
Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
fictional character on The Big Bang Theory
2,127
views
views
94
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist (1824–1887)
2,070
views
views
95
Henry Tizard
British chemist (1885–1959)
2,045
views
views
96
Robert Malone
American doctor and biochemist
2,027
views
views
97
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
1,974
views
views
98
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
1,963
views
views
99
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Prafulla Chandra Ray
Bengali chemist, educationist, poet, historian, industrialist and philanthropist (1861–1944)
1,953
views
views
100
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
1,926
views
views
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