Trending Chemists this year
The 100 most-viewed chemists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Dolph Lundgren.
100
Ranked
1,364,139
Total Views (this year)
1
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
106,549
views
views
2
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
92,672
views
views
3
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
77,336
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
75,458
views
views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
68,316
views
views
6
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
66,085
views
views
7
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
44,867
views
views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
40,320
views
views
9
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
33,495
views
views
10
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
29,985
views
views
11
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
21,249
views
views
12
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
19,269
views
views
13
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
18,702
views
views
14
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
18,605
views
views
15
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
17,887
views
views
16
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
17,569
views
views
17
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
15,817
views
views
18
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
15,324
views
views
19
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
14,461
views
views
20
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
14,410
views
views
21
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
13,988
views
views
22
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
13,627
views
views
23
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
13,498
views
views
24
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
12,823
views
views
25
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
12,360
views
views
26
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
12,231
views
views
27
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
11,993
views
views
28
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
11,422
views
views
29
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
11,299
views
views
30
Rake Yohn
American television personality
11,284
views
views
31
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
11,155
views
views
32
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
10,460
views
views
33
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
10,312
views
views
34
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
9,958
views
views
35
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
9,917
views
views
36
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
9,898
views
views
37
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
9,695
views
views
38
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
9,599
views
views
39
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
9,112
views
views
40
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
9,060
views
views
41
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
8,953
views
views
42
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
8,919
views
views
43
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
8,748
views
views
44
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
8,305
views
views
45
Craig Venter
American biotechnologist and businessman (1946–2026)
8,005
views
views
46
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
7,829
views
views
47
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
7,637
views
views
48
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
7,402
views
views
49
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
7,379
views
views
50
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
7,243
views
views
51
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
7,207
views
views
52
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
7,183
views
views
53
Pavel Jungwirth
Czech chemist and academic (1966–2026)
6,994
views
views
54
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
6,552
views
views
55
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
6,434
views
views
56
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
6,276
views
views
57
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
6,166
views
views
58
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
6,050
views
views
59
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
5,909
views
views
60
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
5,850
views
views
61
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
5,806
views
views
62
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
5,795
views
views
63
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
5,746
views
views
64
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
5,658
views
views
65
Drew Weissman
American physician-scientist (born 1959)
5,615
views
views
66
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
5,614
views
views
67
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
5,453
views
views
68
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
5,287
views
views
69
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
5,261
views
views
70
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
5,218
views
views
71
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
5,213
views
views
72
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
5,153
views
views
73
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
5,147
views
views
74
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
5,119
views
views
75
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
4,903
views
views
76
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
4,790
views
views
77
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
4,741
views
views
78
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
4,703
views
views
79
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
4,693
views
views
80
Harsha Bhogle
Indian cricket commentator
4,581
views
views
81
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
4,561
views
views
82
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
4,520
views
views
83
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
4,458
views
views
84
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
4,438
views
views
85
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
4,427
views
views
86
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
4,384
views
views
87
Peter Douglas
American film producer
4,307
views
views
88
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922–1995)
4,302
views
views
89
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
4,249
views
views
90
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
4,211
views
views
91
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
4,141
views
views
92
Frank Olson
American chemist (1910-1953)
4,123
views
views
93
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
3,964
views
views
94
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
3,936
views
views
95
Humphry Davy
British chemist
3,849
views
views
96
Lucius Fox
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,830
views
views
97
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
3,739
views
views
98
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian biochemist
3,735
views
views
99
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
3,693
views
views
100
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
3,668
views
views
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