Trending Chemists this month
The 100 most-viewed chemists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.
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Ranked
191,757
Total Views (this month)
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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
14,443
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views
2
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
12,981
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views
3
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
12,580
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views
4
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
10,435
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views
5
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
10,369
views
views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
9,595
views
views
7
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
9,304
views
views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
5,527
views
views
9
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
4,549
views
views
10
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
4,240
views
views
11
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
3,137
views
views
12
Harsha Bhogle
Indian cricket commentator
3,006
views
views
13
Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006)
2,918
views
views
14
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
2,586
views
views
15
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
2,440
views
views
16
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
2,135
views
views
17
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
2,130
views
views
18
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
2,049
views
views
19
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
2,006
views
views
20
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
1,996
views
views
21
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
1,940
views
views
22
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
1,909
views
views
23
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
1,899
views
views
24
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
1,660
views
views
25
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
1,631
views
views
26
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
1,624
views
views
27
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
1,603
views
views
28
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
1,525
views
views
29
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
1,443
views
views
30
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
1,441
views
views
31
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
Spanish politician and chemist (1951-2019)
1,390
views
views
32
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
1,320
views
views
33
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
1,313
views
views
34
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
1,298
views
views
35
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
1,293
views
views
36
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
1,275
views
views
37
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
1,251
views
views
38
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
1,217
views
views
39
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
1,192
views
views
40
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
1,187
views
views
41
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
1,176
views
views
42
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
1,140
views
views
43
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
1,138
views
views
44
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
1,137
views
views
45
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
1,133
views
views
46
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
1,130
views
views
47
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
1,109
views
views
48
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
1,089
views
views
49
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
1,087
views
views
50
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
1,083
views
views
51
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
1,070
views
views
52
Friedrich Bayer
German businessman (1825–1880)
1,002
views
views
53
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
1,002
views
views
54
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
963
views
views
55
Joachim Sauer
German chemist and former Second Gentleman of Germany
899
views
views
56
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
885
views
views
57
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
868
views
views
58
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
839
views
views
59
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
826
views
views
60
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
801
views
views
61
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
740
views
views
62
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
740
views
views
63
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
732
views
views
64
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
717
views
views
65
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
700
views
views
66
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
695
views
views
67
Frauke Petry
German politician
673
views
views
68
Carlos Blanco Pérez
Spanish writer
657
views
views
69
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
648
views
views
70
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Spanish scientist (1852-1934)
648
views
views
71
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
642
views
views
72
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
637
views
views
73
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
636
views
views
74
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
633
views
views
75
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
630
views
views
76
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
621
views
views
77
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
618
views
views
78
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
618
views
views
79
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
617
views
views
80
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
617
views
views
81
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
609
views
views
82
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist
595
views
views
83
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
German chemist, science journalist and television presenter
583
views
views
84
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
571
views
views
85
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
549
views
views
86
Vladimir Vernadsky
Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology
545
views
views
87
Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
528
views
views
88
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
522
views
views
89
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
521
views
views
90
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
509
views
views
91
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
508
views
views
92
Fritz Vahrenholt
German politician and climate change denier (born 1949)
505
views
views
93
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
500
views
views
94
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
485
views
views
95
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
484
views
views
96
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
482
views
views
97
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
476
views
views
98
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
456
views
views
99
Fred Chase Koch
American chemical engineer and entrepreneur (1900–1967)
448
views
views
100
Boris Grigoryev
448
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views
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