Trending Chemists of all time
The 100 most-viewed chemists of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Karen Wetterhahn.
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774,177
Total Views (of all time)
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Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
71,313
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2
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
56,180
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3
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
51,669
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views
4
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
42,630
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views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
41,601
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views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
32,211
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views
7
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
27,557
views
views
8
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
22,215
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views
9
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
21,616
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views
10
Chulabhorn, Princess Srisavangavadhana
Thai princess
18,577
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views
11
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
14,521
views
views
12
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
12,237
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views
13
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
11,698
views
views
14
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
11,536
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views
15
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
11,166
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views
16
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
10,175
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views
17
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
9,501
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views
18
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
9,177
views
views
19
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
9,158
views
views
20
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
9,104
views
views
21
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
8,668
views
views
22
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
8,581
views
views
23
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
8,090
views
views
24
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
8,057
views
views
25
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
7,976
views
views
26
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
7,642
views
views
27
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
6,518
views
views
28
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
6,325
views
views
29
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
5,955
views
views
30
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
5,868
views
views
31
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
5,586
views
views
32
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
5,428
views
views
33
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
5,357
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views
34
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
5,070
views
views
35
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
4,799
views
views
36
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
4,788
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views
37
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
4,330
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views
38
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
4,303
views
views
39
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
4,166
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views
40
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
4,147
views
views
41
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
3,977
views
views
42
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
3,845
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views
43
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
3,776
views
views
44
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,729
views
views
45
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
3,696
views
views
46
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
3,584
views
views
47
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
3,566
views
views
48
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,546
views
views
49
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
3,527
views
views
50
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
3,478
views
views
51
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
3,422
views
views
52
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
3,269
views
views
53
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
3,239
views
views
54
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
3,157
views
views
55
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
3,152
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views
56
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
3,125
views
views
57
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
2,997
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views
58
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
2,987
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views
59
Rake Yohn
American television personality
2,949
views
views
60
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
2,815
views
views
61
Nigel Braun
Canadian YouTuber (born 1991)
2,803
views
views
62
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
2,801
views
views
63
Peter Douglas
American film producer
2,771
views
views
64
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
2,726
views
views
65
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
2,674
views
views
66
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
2,650
views
views
67
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
2,647
views
views
68
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
2,635
views
views
69
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
2,561
views
views
70
Humphry Davy
British chemist
2,538
views
views
71
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
2,527
views
views
72
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
2,505
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views
73
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
2,504
views
views
74
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
2,497
views
views
75
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
2,475
views
views
76
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
2,427
views
views
77
Gertrude B. Elion
American biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)
2,355
views
views
78
John Magufuli
5th President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021
2,254
views
views
79
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
2,188
views
views
80
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian biochemist
2,182
views
views
81
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
2,160
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views
82
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
2,152
views
views
83
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
2,124
views
views
84
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
2,113
views
views
85
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
2,106
views
views
86
Barbara McClintock
American scientist and cytogeneticist
2,106
views
views
87
Margaret Beckett
British politician (born 1943)
2,100
views
views
88
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
2,092
views
views
89
Henry Moseley
English physicist
2,062
views
views
90
Jessie Inchauspé
French biochemist and author
2,054
views
views
91
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
2,037
views
views
92
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
1,960
views
views
93
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
1,953
views
views
94
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,953
views
views
95
Yellapragada Subbarow
Indian-American scientist
1,922
views
views
96
Milo Aukerman
American singer scientist
1,915
views
views
97
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
1,869
views
views
98
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
1,819
views
views
99
Henry Cavendish
English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
1,817
views
views
100
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
1,811
views
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