Trending Chemists — the 7 days to 27 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed chemists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 27 October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Marie Curie. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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1,332,687
Total Views (the 7 days to 27 October 2026)
1
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
88,577
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
81,741
views
views
3
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
65,485
views
views
4
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
62,819
views
views
5
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
61,084
views
views
6
Ian Gibbons
American based British biochemist
59,266
views
views
7
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
57,170
views
views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
36,591
views
views
9
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
33,271
views
views
10
Radomir Saičić
Serbian university professor, chemist, and academic
22,952
views
views
11
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
22,673
views
views
12
Kensō Soai
Japanese organic chemist (1950– )
22,283
views
views
13
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
20,993
views
views
14
Channing Robertson
American chemical engineer and academic
18,916
views
views
15
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
18,850
views
views
16
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
18,818
views
views
17
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
17,649
views
views
18
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
17,389
views
views
19
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
16,567
views
views
20
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
15,600
views
views
21
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
15,108
views
views
22
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
14,191
views
views
23
Katherina Reiche
German politician
14,031
views
views
24
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
13,763
views
views
25
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
13,260
views
views
26
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
12,751
views
views
27
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
12,501
views
views
28
Harsha Bhogle
Indian cricket commentator
12,388
views
views
29
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
12,331
views
views
30
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
12,290
views
views
31
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
11,601
views
views
32
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
11,188
views
views
33
David M. Sabatini
biologist who discovered mTOR
11,088
views
views
34
Max Factor
American businessman (1872–1938)
10,298
views
views
35
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
10,059
views
views
36
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
10,050
views
views
37
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
9,699
views
views
38
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
9,328
views
views
39
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
9,140
views
views
40
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
9,085
views
views
41
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
8,903
views
views
42
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
8,801
views
views
43
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
8,679
views
views
44
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
8,441
views
views
45
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
8,153
views
views
46
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
8,148
views
views
47
Robert Havemann
German chemist and dissident (1910–1982)
7,911
views
views
48
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
7,902
views
views
49
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
7,868
views
views
50
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
7,854
views
views
51
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
7,789
views
views
52
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
7,619
views
views
53
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
7,410
views
views
54
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
7,028
views
views
55
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
7,011
views
views
56
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
6,900
views
views
57
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
6,821
views
views
58
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
6,817
views
views
59
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
6,712
views
views
60
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
6,642
views
views
61
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
6,521
views
views
62
Frauke Petry
German politician
6,511
views
views
63
Elena Ceaușescu
Romanian politician (1919–1989)
6,434
views
views
64
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
6,212
views
views
65
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
6,042
views
views
66
Adolfo Kaminsky
French resistance member and forger (1925–2023)
5,806
views
views
67
Koichi Tanaka
Japanese chemist
5,706
views
views
68
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
5,425
views
views
69
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
5,338
views
views
70
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
5,304
views
views
71
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
5,163
views
views
72
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
5,151
views
views
73
Peter Douglas
American film producer
5,061
views
views
74
Henri B. Kagan
French chemist
4,784
views
views
75
Eleftherios P. Diamandis
pathobiology researcher
4,768
views
views
76
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
4,739
views
views
77
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004)
4,738
views
views
78
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
4,738
views
views
79
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
4,737
views
views
80
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
4,702
views
views
81
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
4,467
views
views
82
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Spanish scientist (1852-1934)
4,464
views
views
83
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
4,439
views
views
84
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
4,332
views
views
85
Sebastian Lege
German chef and TV personality
4,219
views
views
86
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
4,168
views
views
87
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
4,164
views
views
88
Chulabhorn, Princess Srisavangavadhana
Thai princess
3,944
views
views
89
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
3,863
views
views
90
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
German chemist, science journalist and television presenter
3,848
views
views
91
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
Spanish politician and chemist (1951-2019)
3,802
views
views
92
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
3,801
views
views
93
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
3,729
views
views
94
Gisela Jacobasch
German university teacher
3,716
views
views
95
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
3,708
views
views
96
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
3,678
views
views
97
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor (1627-1691)
3,644
views
views
98
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
3,546
views
views
99
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
3,521
views
views
100
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
3,501
views
views
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