Trending Chemists this week
The 100 most-viewed chemists this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Dolph Lundgren.
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Ranked
432,619
Total Views (this week)
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Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
35,135
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2
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
28,974
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views
3
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
20,990
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views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
20,627
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views
5
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
20,062
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views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
19,474
views
views
7
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
16,542
views
views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
14,504
views
views
9
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
9,659
views
views
10
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
7,349
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views
11
Rake Yohn
American television personality
6,712
views
views
12
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
6,657
views
views
13
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
5,839
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views
14
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
5,656
views
views
15
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
5,443
views
views
16
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
5,365
views
views
17
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
5,289
views
views
18
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
4,957
views
views
19
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
4,906
views
views
20
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
4,694
views
views
21
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
4,621
views
views
22
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
4,522
views
views
23
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
4,498
views
views
24
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
4,127
views
views
25
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
4,062
views
views
26
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
4,024
views
views
27
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
3,936
views
views
28
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
3,886
views
views
29
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
3,825
views
views
30
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,738
views
views
31
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,470
views
views
32
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
3,430
views
views
33
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
3,347
views
views
34
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
3,336
views
views
35
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
3,293
views
views
36
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
3,209
views
views
37
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
3,038
views
views
38
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
3,008
views
views
39
Blockbuster
name of four fictional characters in the DC Comics Universe
2,940
views
views
40
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
2,836
views
views
41
Drew Weissman
American physician-scientist (born 1959)
2,820
views
views
42
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
2,756
views
views
43
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
2,721
views
views
44
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Prafulla Chandra Ray
Bengali chemist, educationist, poet, historian, industrialist and philanthropist (1861–1944)
2,707
views
views
45
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
2,631
views
views
46
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
2,550
views
views
47
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
2,517
views
views
48
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
2,511
views
views
49
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
2,492
views
views
50
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
2,488
views
views
51
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
2,439
views
views
52
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
2,420
views
views
53
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
2,381
views
views
54
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
2,291
views
views
55
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
2,248
views
views
56
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
2,153
views
views
57
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
2,068
views
views
58
Pavel Jungwirth
Czech chemist and academic (1966–2026)
2,042
views
views
59
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
2,041
views
views
60
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
2,024
views
views
61
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
1,962
views
views
62
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
1,934
views
views
63
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
1,888
views
views
64
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
1,862
views
views
65
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
1,779
views
views
66
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
1,768
views
views
67
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
1,765
views
views
68
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
1,761
views
views
69
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
1,756
views
views
70
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
1,727
views
views
71
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
1,710
views
views
72
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
1,701
views
views
73
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
1,662
views
views
74
Peter Douglas
American film producer
1,655
views
views
75
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
1,645
views
views
76
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
1,624
views
views
77
Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
fictional character on The Big Bang Theory
1,607
views
views
78
Lucius Fox
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
1,606
views
views
79
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
1,584
views
views
80
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
1,578
views
views
81
Silvana Konermann
Swiss-American biochemist
1,550
views
views
82
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
1,548
views
views
83
Donald Pettit
American astronaut
1,529
views
views
84
Robert Malone
American doctor and biochemist
1,509
views
views
85
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
1,455
views
views
86
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
1,435
views
views
87
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
1,424
views
views
88
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
1,407
views
views
89
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
1,401
views
views
90
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
1,399
views
views
91
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist (1824–1887)
1,385
views
views
92
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
1,362
views
views
93
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
1,359
views
views
94
Thérèse Coffey
British politician
1,351
views
views
95
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
1,320
views
views
96
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
1,295
views
views
97
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
1,278
views
views
98
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian biochemist
1,276
views
views
99
Humphry Davy
British chemist
1,244
views
views
100
Frank Olson
American chemist (1910-1953)
1,238
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