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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Marie Curie	8,579
2	Antoine Lavoisier	3,092
3	Robert Boyle	1,827
4	Paracelsus	1,514
5	Humphry Davy	1,148
6	Joseph Priestley	1,089
7	Lise Meitner	841
8	Henry Cavendish	749
9	Pierre Curie	720
10	Hans Christian Ørsted	683
11	Albertus Magnus	678
12	Timeline of chemical elements discoveries	651
13	Glenn T. Seaborg	625
14	William Crookes	604
15	Jöns Jacob Berzelius	580
16	Gustav Kirchhoff	565
17	Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac	482
18	Otto Hahn	468
19	Jābir ibn Hayyān	418
20	John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh	381
21	Dmitri Mendeleev's predicted elements	373
22	William Ramsay	351
23	Carl Wilhelm Scheele	332
24	Friedrich Wöhler	252
25	William Hyde Wollaston	156
26	Daniel Rutherford	139
27	Hennig Brand	119
28	Emilio G. Segrè	112
29	Martin Heinrich Klaproth	112
30	Pierre Janssen	102
31	Antonio de Ulloa	99
32	Norman Lockyer	79
33	Andrés Manuel del Río	79
34	Carl Auer von Welsbach	76
35	Louis Nicolas Vauquelin	68
36	William Gregor	67
37	Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran	64
38	Johan Gadolin	62
39	Bernard Courtois	59
40	Axel Fredrik Cronstedt	57
41	Philip Abelson	56
42	Albert Ghiorso	52
43	Johan August Arfwedson	45
44	Charles Hatchett	45
45	Smithson Tennant	45
46	Georg Brandt	40
47	Friedrich Stromeyer	38
48	Ida Noddack	38
49	Prout's hypothesis	37
50	Antoine Jérôme Balard	36
51	John Gofman	33
52	Karl Ernst Claus	32
53	Claude François Geoffroy	31
54	Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein	31
55	André-Louis Debierne	30
56	Carl Gustaf Mosander	30
57	Juan José Elhuyar	29
58	Friedrich Ernst Dorn	27
59	Per Teodor Cleve	27
60	Charles Wood (ironmaster)	27
61	Kazimierz Fajans	25
62	Clemens Winkler	25
63	Johan Gottlieb Gahn	24
64	Gottfried Münzenberg	23
65	Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac	22
66	Fausto Elhuyar	22
67	Marguerite Perey	21
68	Lars Fredrik Nilson	20
69	Nils Gabriel Sefström	19
70	Friedrich Oskar Giesel	19
71	Anders Gustaf Ekeberg	18
72	William Brownrigg	18
73	Charles D. Coryell	18
74	Carl Jacob Löwig	17
75	Georges Urbain	16
76	Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann	15
77	Marc Delafontaine	15
78	Kenneth Ross MacKenzie	15
79	Jacques-Louis Soret	13
80	Adair Crawford	13
81	Fred Allison	13
82	Ferdinand Reich	12
83	Masataka Ogawa	12
84	Jacob A. Marinsky	11
85	Walter Noddack	11
86	Peter Armbruster	10
87	Hieronymous Theodor Richter	10
88	Thomas Charles Hope	9
89	Lawrence E. Glendenin	9
90	Richard Chenevix (chemist)	8
91	Ignatius Gottfried Kaim	7
92	Otto Berg (scientist)	less than 5 views
93	Claude-Auguste Lamy	less than 5 views

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