Trending Chemists in USA this month
The 100 most-viewed chemists this month on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Margaret Thatcher.
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96,048
Total Views (this month)
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Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
7,352
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2
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
6,075
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3
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
5,626
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4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
5,289
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views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
4,715
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6
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
4,335
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7
Harsha Bhogle
Indian cricket commentator
3,006
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views
8
Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006)
2,904
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views
9
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
2,725
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views
10
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
1,895
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11
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
1,878
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views
12
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
1,719
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views
13
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
1,445
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views
14
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
1,412
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views
15
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
1,384
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views
16
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
1,226
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views
17
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
1,162
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views
18
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
1,147
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views
19
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
1,140
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views
20
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
1,113
views
views
21
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
1,069
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views
22
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
1,043
views
views
23
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
1,039
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views
24
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
942
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views
25
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
886
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views
26
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
861
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views
27
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
850
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views
28
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
848
views
views
29
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
795
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views
30
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
794
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views
31
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
777
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views
32
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
756
views
views
33
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
745
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views
34
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
728
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views
35
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
694
views
views
36
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
676
views
views
37
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
649
views
views
38
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
638
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views
39
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
638
views
views
40
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
625
views
views
41
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
593
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views
42
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
540
views
views
43
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
538
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views
44
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
536
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views
45
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
507
views
views
46
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
504
views
views
47
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
489
views
views
48
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
484
views
views
49
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
483
views
views
50
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
482
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51
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
482
views
views
52
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
477
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views
53
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
468
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views
54
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
467
views
views
55
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
466
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56
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
465
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views
57
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
461
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58
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
455
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59
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
449
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views
60
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
440
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61
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
438
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62
Fred Chase Koch
American chemical engineer and entrepreneur (1900–1967)
419
views
views
63
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
418
views
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64
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
417
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views
65
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
408
views
views
66
Peter Douglas
American film producer
385
views
views
67
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
381
views
views
68
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
379
views
views
69
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
375
views
views
70
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
370
views
views
71
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
356
views
views
72
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
355
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views
73
Lucius Fox
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
340
views
views
74
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
336
views
views
75
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
335
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views
76
Yellapragada Subbarow
Indian-American scientist
325
views
views
77
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
315
views
views
78
Valentina Ivanovna Gagarina
wife of Yuri Gagarin (1935-2020)
314
views
views
79
Frank Olson
American chemist (1910-1953)
304
views
views
80
Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz
Mexican chemical engineer
301
views
views
81
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
294
views
views
82
Rake Yohn
American television personality
285
views
views
83
Molten Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
278
views
views
84
Jeffrey Wigand
American whistleblower, tobacco company executive
278
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views
85
Henry Moseley
English physicist
277
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views
86
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
277
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views
87
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
274
views
views
88
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
274
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views
89
Ian Gibbons
American based British biochemist
273
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views
90
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
272
views
views
91
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
271
views
views
92
Nigel Braun
Canadian YouTuber (born 1991)
270
views
views
93
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
269
views
views
94
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
265
views
views
95
Eli Lilly
American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist
259
views
views
96
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
259
views
views
97
Lidewij de Vos
Dutch politician (born 1997)
256
views
views
98
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
254
views
views
99
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
253
views
views
100
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
252
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