Trending Chemists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed chemists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Dolph Lundgren.
100
Ranked
1,220,926
Total Views (this year)
1
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
100,200
views
views
2
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
85,336
views
views
3
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
63,981
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
62,151
views
views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
60,986
views
views
6
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
54,681
views
views
7
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
43,696
views
views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
35,802
views
views
9
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
25,477
views
views
10
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
23,028
views
views
11
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
19,523
views
views
12
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
17,564
views
views
13
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
17,081
views
views
14
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
14,940
views
views
15
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
14,239
views
views
16
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
14,235
views
views
17
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
14,082
views
views
18
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
13,563
views
views
19
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
13,503
views
views
20
Jerry Buss
American businessman and real estate investor (1933–2013)
13,239
views
views
21
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
13,015
views
views
22
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
12,995
views
views
23
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
12,213
views
views
24
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
11,951
views
views
25
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
11,917
views
views
26
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
11,611
views
views
27
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
11,499
views
views
28
Rake Yohn
American television personality
11,241
views
views
29
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
10,723
views
views
30
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
10,010
views
views
31
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
9,992
views
views
32
Scarecrow
fictional character in DC Comics
9,943
views
views
33
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
9,346
views
views
34
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
9,266
views
views
35
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
9,021
views
views
36
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
8,505
views
views
37
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
8,344
views
views
38
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
American chemical engineer, businessperson, and preservationist
8,280
views
views
39
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
8,273
views
views
40
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
8,222
views
views
41
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
8,147
views
views
42
Craig Venter
American biotechnologist and businessman (1946–2026)
7,871
views
views
43
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
7,749
views
views
44
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
7,634
views
views
45
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
7,522
views
views
46
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
7,230
views
views
47
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
7,218
views
views
48
Morbius
fictional character in Marvel Comics
7,166
views
views
49
Pavel Jungwirth
Czech chemist and academic (1966–2026)
6,994
views
views
50
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
6,530
views
views
51
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
6,351
views
views
52
Henry Pym
fictional character in Marvel Comics
6,344
views
views
53
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
6,163
views
views
54
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
5,996
views
views
55
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
5,851
views
views
56
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
5,789
views
views
57
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
5,699
views
views
58
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
5,608
views
views
59
Antony Kidman
Australian academic and father of Nicole Kidman (1938-2014)
5,601
views
views
60
Rupert Sheldrake
English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
5,570
views
views
61
Drew Weissman
American physician-scientist (born 1959)
5,564
views
views
62
Alexander Shulgin
American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
5,420
views
views
63
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
5,328
views
views
64
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
5,325
views
views
65
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
5,317
views
views
66
Owsley Stanley
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
5,141
views
views
67
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
5,107
views
views
68
Mr. Freeze
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
5,070
views
views
69
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
5,009
views
views
70
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
4,908
views
views
71
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
4,812
views
views
72
Nambi Narayanan
Indian aerospace scientist (born 1941)
4,790
views
views
73
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
4,770
views
views
74
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
4,657
views
views
75
Harsha Bhogle
Indian cricket commentator
4,581
views
views
76
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
4,558
views
views
77
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
4,539
views
views
78
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
4,479
views
views
79
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
4,471
views
views
80
Omar M. Yaghi
American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
4,307
views
views
81
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
4,274
views
views
82
Peter Douglas
American film producer
4,209
views
views
83
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922–1995)
4,208
views
views
84
Frank Olson
American chemist (1910-1953)
4,058
views
views
85
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
4,054
views
views
86
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
4,040
views
views
87
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
4,022
views
views
88
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
3,930
views
views
89
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
3,922
views
views
90
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
3,751
views
views
91
Lucius Fox
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,712
views
views
92
Humphry Davy
British chemist
3,652
views
views
93
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
3,649
views
views
94
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
3,618
views
views
95
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist (1914–2015)
3,573
views
views
96
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
3,537
views
views
97
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian biochemist
3,515
views
views
98
Nigel Braun
Canadian YouTuber (born 1991)
3,468
views
views
99
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
3,445
views
views
100
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
3,429
views
views
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