Trending Chemists — the 7 days to 26 October 2026

1

Marie Curie

Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)

📚 72 citations 📰 7 stories · 3 sources

90,722
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2

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

📚 55 citations

83,873
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3

Pope Francis

266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)

📚 51 citations 📰 146 stories · 17 sources

68,023
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4

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)

📚 54 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

63,141
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5

Margaret Thatcher

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990

📚 53 citations 📰 58 stories · 13 sources

62,241
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6

Ian Gibbons

American based British biochemist

59,313
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7

Dolph Lundgren

Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)

📚 17 citations

56,799
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8

Isaac Asimov

American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)

📚 80 citations

36,994
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9

Angela Merkel

chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)

📚 133 citations 📰 36 stories · 10 sources

32,932
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10

Kensō Soai

Japanese organic chemist (1950– )

📚 5 citations

22,722
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11

Alfred Nobel

Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)

📚 33 citations 📰 9 stories · 3 sources

21,980
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12

Channing Robertson

American chemical engineer and academic

19,698
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13

Walter White

fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad

📚 9 citations

19,443
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14

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

📚 67 citations

18,875
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15

Louis Slotin

Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)

📚 5 citations

17,936
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16

Niels Bohr

Danish physicist (1885–1962)

📚 74 citations

17,318
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17

Katherina Reiche

German politician

📚 17 citations 📰 2 stories · 2 sources

17,161
views

18

The Joker

fictional character throughout the DC Universe

📚 12 citations

16,983
views

19

David M. Sabatini

biologist who discovered mTOR

📚 9 citations

16,177
views

20

Rosalind Franklin

British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)

📚 26 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

15,441
views

21

Avicenna

Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)

📚 44 citations

15,146
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22

Valery Legasov

Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)

📚 8 citations

14,613
views

23

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch

📚 25 citations

13,913
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24

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist (1834–1907)

📚 34 citations

13,437
views

25

Alexander Fleming

Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)

📚 38 citations 📰 2 stories · 2 sources

12,638
views

26

Paracelsus

Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)

📚 30 citations

12,561
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27

Antoine Lavoisier

French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)

📚 37 citations

12,357
views

28

Max Factor

American businessman (1872–1938)

📚 4 citations

12,209
views

29

Michael Faraday

British scientist (1791–1867)

📚 49 citations

12,015
views

30

Ernest Rutherford

New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)

📚 46 citations

11,454
views

31

Harsha Bhogle

Indian cricket commentator

📚 2 citations

11,388
views

32

Poison Ivy

fictional character throughout the DC Universe

📚 6 citations 📰 7 stories · 5 sources

11,018
views

33

Robert Ley

German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)

📚 26 citations

10,188
views

34

Irène Joliot-Curie

French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)

📚 40 citations

10,126
views

35

Pierre Curie

French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)

📚 49 citations

9,613
views

36

Lex Luthor

fictional character in DC Comics

📚 5 citations 📰 2 stories · 2 sources

9,151
views

37

Primo Levi

Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)

📚 39 citations

9,026
views

38

George Washington Carver

African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)

📚 23 citations

8,757
views

39

Albert Wesker

fictional character from Resident Evil

📚 1 citation

8,711
views

40

Bane

fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain

📚 2 citations

8,679
views

41

Shinya Yamanaka

Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)

📚 41 citations

8,526
views

42

Mikhail Lomonosov

Russian polymath (1711-1765)

📚 44 citations

8,129
views

43

Fritz Haber

German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)

📚 33 citations

8,108
views

44

Lise Meitner

Austrian-Swedish physicist

📚 38 citations

7,849
views

45

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Italian neurologist (1909–2012)

📚 50 citations

7,811
views

46

Armando Bukele Kattán

Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)

7,800
views

47

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Indian physicist (1888–1970)

📚 28 citations

7,796
views

48

Linus Pauling

American scientist (1901–1994)

📚 70 citations

7,767
views

49

Ivan Pavlov

Russian physiologist (1849–1936)

📚 45 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

7,696
views

50

Robert Havemann

German chemist and dissident (1910–1982)

📚 16 citations

7,624
views

51

Alessandro Volta

Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)

📚 30 citations

7,562
views

52

Lionel Dahmer

American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer

📚 6 citations

7,304
views

53

Oliver Sacks

British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)

📚 33 citations

7,038
views

54

Karen Wetterhahn

American chemist (1948–1997)

📚 2 citations

6,924
views

55

Henry Pym

fictional character in Marvel Comics

📚 1 citation

6,815
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56

James Watson

American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)

📚 61 citations

6,718
views

57

James Watt

British engineer (1736–1819)

📚 37 citations

6,704
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58

Scarecrow

fictional character in DC Comics

📚 3 citations

6,693
views

59

John Dalton

British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)

📚 26 citations

6,618
views

60

Elena Ceaușescu

Romanian politician (1919–1989)

📚 8 citations

6,603
views

61

Gisela Jacobasch

German university teacher

6,455
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62

Frauke Petry

German politician

📚 19 citations

6,390
views

63

Ludwig Boltzmann

Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)

📚 29 citations

6,181
views

64

Robert Koch

German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)

📚 43 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

5,874
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65

Adolfo Kaminsky

French resistance member and forger (1925–2023)

📚 10 citations

5,859
views

66

Radomir Saičić

Serbian university professor, chemist, and academic

5,616
views

67

Albertus Magnus

German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)

📚 40 citations

5,367
views

68

Chaim Weizmann

Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)

📚 24 citations

5,274
views

69

Thomas Midgley

American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)

📚 15 citations

5,265
views

70

Henri B. Kagan

French chemist

📚 27 citations

5,098
views

71

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)

📚 42 citations

5,025
views

72

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

📚 38 citations

4,972
views

73

David Koch

American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)

📚 13 citations

4,927
views

74

Beast

fictional character in Marvel Comics

📚 2 citations

4,924
views

75

Koichi Tanaka

Japanese chemist

📚 15 citations

4,914
views

76

Peter Douglas

American film producer

📚 5 citations

4,857
views

77

Eleftherios P. Diamandis

pathobiology researcher

4,799
views

78

Francis Crick

British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004)

📚 30 citations

4,780
views

79

Amedeo Avogadro

Italian scientist

📚 22 citations

4,694
views

80

Jack Parsons

American rocket engineer (1914–1952)

📚 8 citations

4,636
views

81

Sebastian Lege

German chef and TV personality

4,595
views

82

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Spanish scientist (1852-1934)

📚 62 citations

4,509
views

83

Antony Kidman

Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)

📚 6 citations

4,503
views

84

Albert Hofmann

Swiss chemist (1906–2008)

📚 23 citations

4,493
views

85

Alexander Borodin

Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)

📚 36 citations

4,312
views

86

Jennifer Doudna

American biochemist

📚 69 citations

4,197
views

87

Mr. Freeze

fictional character throughout the DC Universe

📚 3 citations

4,158
views

88

Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim

German chemist, science journalist and television presenter

📚 22 citations

4,003
views

89

Chulabhorn, Princess Srisavangavadhana

Thai princess

📚 4 citations

3,972
views

90

Tu Youyou

Chinese medical scientist

📚 17 citations

3,924
views

91

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

Spanish politician and chemist (1951-2019)

📚 18 citations

3,892
views

92

Otto Hahn

German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)

📚 34 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

3,872
views

93

Robert Boyle

Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor (1627-1691)

📚 34 citations

3,705
views

94

Al-Biruni

11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)

📚 18 citations

3,696
views

95

Elias Canetti

Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)

📚 41 citations

3,665
views

96

Jerry Buss

American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)

📚 6 citations

3,628
views

97

Pierre Joliot

French biochemist

📚 13 citations

3,596
views

98

Salimuzzaman Siddiqui

natural products chemist, scientist, painter, poet (1897–1994)

📚 7 citations

3,577
views

99

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

French naturalist (1744-1829)

📚 38 citations

3,560
views

100

Frederick Banting

Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)

📚 25 citations

3,480
views