Trending Chemists of all time
The 100 most-viewed chemists of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.
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241,965
Total Views (of all time)
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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
47,174
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2
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
16,571
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3
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
10,959
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4
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
9,561
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5
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
8,370
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6
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
7,964
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views
7
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
5,793
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views
8
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
4,849
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views
9
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
4,644
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views
10
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
4,313
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views
11
Rake Yohn
American television personality
4,297
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views
12
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
3,986
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views
13
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
3,786
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views
14
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
3,089
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views
15
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
2,918
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views
16
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
2,879
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views
17
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
2,878
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views
18
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
2,838
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views
19
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
2,800
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views
20
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
2,637
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views
21
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
2,615
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views
22
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
2,597
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23
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
2,502
views
views
24
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
2,372
views
views
25
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
2,308
views
views
26
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
2,183
views
views
27
Jessie Inchauspé
French biochemist
2,062
views
views
28
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
2,046
views
views
29
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Prafulla Chandra Ray
Bengali chemist, educationist, poet, historian, industrialist and philanthropist (1861–1944)
1,980
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30
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
1,971
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31
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,969
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32
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
1,844
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views
33
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
1,821
views
views
34
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
1,737
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views
35
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
1,633
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views
36
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
1,518
views
views
37
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
1,485
views
views
38
Charles Goodyear
American inventor (1800-1860)
1,458
views
views
39
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
1,429
views
views
40
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
1,421
views
views
41
Donald Pettit
American astronaut
1,420
views
views
42
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
1,346
views
views
43
Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
fictional character on The Big Bang Theory
1,339
views
views
44
Emmanuelle Charpentier
French microbiologist and biochemist (born 1968)
1,294
views
views
45
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
1,281
views
views
46
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
1,279
views
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47
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
1,240
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views
48
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
1,226
views
views
49
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
1,193
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views
50
Howard Florey
Australian pathologist (1898-1968)
1,185
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views
51
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
1,177
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views
52
David Baltimore
American biologist and Nobel laureate (1938–2025)
1,172
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views
53
Story Musgrave
American physician and NASA astronaut
1,151
views
views
54
Drew Weissman
American physician-scientist (born 1959)
1,138
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views
55
Josiah Willard Gibbs
American scientist (1839–1903)
1,137
views
views
56
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
1,136
views
views
57
Leo Rudolf Raubal
Adolf Hitler's nephew (1906–1977)
1,118
views
views
58
Robert Augustus Chesebrough
American chemist (1837–1933)
1,105
views
views
59
August Kekulé
German organic chemist (1829–1896)
1,076
views
views
60
Justus von Liebig
German chemist (1803-1873)
1,050
views
views
61
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
1,011
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views
62
Elio Di Rupo
Belgian politician (born 1951)
970
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views
63
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
951
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views
64
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
918
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views
65
Jheri Redding
American hairdresser (1907-1998)
896
views
views
66
Bruno Tesch
German chemist, arrested by the British as a war criminal, tried, and executed (1890-1946)
853
views
views
67
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
852
views
views
68
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist (1779–1848)
832
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69
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
807
views
views
70
Wilfrid Voynich
Polish revolutionary, antiquarian, bibliophile, historian and eponym of Voynich manuscript (1865-1930)
800
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views
71
Robert Malone
American doctor and biochemist
755
views
views
72
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
737
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73
William Worrall Mayo
English born medical doctor and chemist (1819-1911)
719
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74
Yulii Khariton
Soviet physicist (1904-1996)
703
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75
George Kistiakowsky
Ukrainian-American physical chemistry professor
689
views
views
76
Johann Konrad Dippel
German pietist theologian, alchemist and physician
683
views
views
77
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
675
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views
78
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
674
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views
79
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist (1824–1887)
672
views
views
80
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
Indian scientist and chemical engineer
668
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views
81
Nicholas Sand
Psychedlic Visionary (1941-2017)
642
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views
82
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
632
views
views
83
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
608
views
views
84
Selman Abraham Waksman
American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics
606
views
views
85
Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Israeli intellectual (1903-1994)
603
views
views
86
Alexander Kellas
Scottish mountain climber and chemist (1868-1921)
583
views
views
87
William Henry Bragg
British scientist (1862–1942)
572
views
views
88
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
558
views
views
89
Percy Cox
British Indian Army general (1864-1937)
553
views
views
90
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist (1914–2015)
544
views
views
91
Stanley B. Prusiner
American neurologist and biochemist
537
views
views
92
Lidewij de Vos
Dutch politician (born 1997)
522
views
views
93
Asima Chatterjee
Indian chemist (1917–2006)
513
views
views
94
Alice Hamilton
American physician and toxicologist (1869–1970)
499
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views
95
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
498
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96
Henry Cavendish
English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
486
views
views
97
Margaret Beckett
British politician (born 1943)
464
views
views
98
Kay Thompson
American author, singer, dancer, actress, and choreographer (1909–1998)
457
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views
99
Patrick Arnold
American chemist
453
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views
100
Wilbur Scoville
American pharmacist (1865–1942)
450
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