Trending Chemists this year
The 100 most-viewed chemists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Pope Francis.
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Ranked
487,516
Total Views (this year)
1
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
32,697
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
32,454
views
views
3
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
32,108
views
views
4
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
29,884
views
views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
25,521
views
views
6
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
22,505
views
views
7
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
18,021
views
views
8
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
16,913
views
views
9
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
14,345
views
views
10
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
9,712
views
views
11
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
8,278
views
views
12
Craig Venter
American biotechnologist and businessman (1946–2026)
7,777
views
views
13
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
6,923
views
views
14
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
6,917
views
views
15
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
6,416
views
views
16
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
6,308
views
views
17
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
5,633
views
views
18
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
5,532
views
views
19
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
5,307
views
views
20
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
5,254
views
views
21
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
5,160
views
views
22
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
4,965
views
views
23
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
4,848
views
views
24
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
4,789
views
views
25
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
4,527
views
views
26
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
3,999
views
views
27
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
3,906
views
views
28
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
3,900
views
views
29
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
3,839
views
views
30
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
3,797
views
views
31
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
3,659
views
views
32
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
3,621
views
views
33
Harsha Bhogle
Indian cricket commentator
3,574
views
views
34
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
3,462
views
views
35
Carlos Blanco Pérez
Spanish writer
3,426
views
views
36
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
3,405
views
views
37
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
3,142
views
views
38
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
3,125
views
views
39
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,054
views
views
40
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
3,031
views
views
41
Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006)
2,948
views
views
42
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
2,922
views
views
43
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
2,900
views
views
44
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
2,875
views
views
45
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
2,830
views
views
46
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
2,776
views
views
47
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
2,759
views
views
48
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
2,689
views
views
49
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
2,687
views
views
50
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
2,564
views
views
51
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
2,560
views
views
52
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
2,499
views
views
53
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
2,467
views
views
54
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
2,395
views
views
55
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
2,339
views
views
56
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
2,144
views
views
57
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
2,139
views
views
58
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
2,114
views
views
59
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
2,096
views
views
60
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
1,999
views
views
61
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
1,973
views
views
62
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
1,917
views
views
63
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
1,915
views
views
64
Johanna Budwig
German biochemist (1908–2003)
1,887
views
views
65
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
1,878
views
views
66
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,813
views
views
67
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
1,757
views
views
68
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
1,740
views
views
69
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
1,735
views
views
70
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
1,713
views
views
71
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
1,704
views
views
72
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
1,683
views
views
73
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
1,633
views
views
74
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
1,627
views
views
75
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
Spanish politician and chemist (1951-2019)
1,549
views
views
76
Rake Yohn
American television personality
1,536
views
views
77
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
1,512
views
views
78
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
1,504
views
views
79
Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte
Spanish biochemist
1,502
views
views
80
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
1,487
views
views
81
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
1,473
views
views
82
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
1,467
views
views
83
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Spanish scientist (1852-1934)
1,447
views
views
84
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
1,438
views
views
85
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
German chemist, science journalist and television presenter
1,432
views
views
86
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
1,424
views
views
87
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
1,420
views
views
88
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
1,410
views
views
89
Nigel Braun
Canadian YouTuber (born 1991)
1,383
views
views
90
Joachim Sauer
German chemist and former Second Gentleman of Germany
1,375
views
views
91
Eugène Schueller
French chemist and businessman (1881–1957)
1,322
views
views
92
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
1,321
views
views
93
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
1,308
views
views
94
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
1,304
views
views
95
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
1,283
views
views
96
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
1,255
views
views
97
Friedrich Bayer
German businessman (1825–1880)
1,249
views
views
98
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,238
views
views
99
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
1,236
views
views
100
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
1,230
views
views
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