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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Isaac Newton	23,671
2	Ernest Rutherford	5,207
3	J. J. Thomson	5,002
4	William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	1,471
5	Thomas Henry Huxley	1,275
6	Christopher Wren	1,270
7	Samuel Pepys	1,160
8	Humphry Davy	1,148
9	Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister	787
10	William Crookes	604
11	Joseph Banks	455
12	Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow	432
13	John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh	381
14	Michael Atiyah	360
15	George Stokes, 1st Baronet	353
16	Joseph Dalton Hooker	300
17	Howard Florey, Baron Florey	257
18	Robert May, Baron May of Oxford	229
19	George Biddell Airy	223
20	Charles Scott Sherrington	217
21	Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex	197
22	William Henry Bragg	196
23	Andrew Huxley	162
24	Hans Sloane	150
25	Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett	149
26	Aaron Klug	136
27	List of Presidents of the Royal Society	131
28	Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd	130
29	Frederick Gowland Hopkins	119
30	Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax	99
31	Alan Lloyd Hodgkin	84
32	William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse	83
33	Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian	81
34	George Porter	71
35	Robert Robinson (scientist)	69
36	William Huggins	66
37	Henry Hallett Dale	63
38	John Somers, 1st Baron Somers	54
39	John Pringle	49
40	William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker	46
41	Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke	45
42	Edward Sabine	41
43	Cyril Norman Hinshelwood	39
44	Robert Moray	37
45	Archibald Geikie	36
46	James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton	36
47	Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet	35
48	Martin Folkes	34
49	Davies Gilbert	34
50	William Spottiswoode	32
51	Joseph Williamson (politician)	29
52	Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton	24
53	George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield	20
54	Robert Southwell (diplomat)	20
55	John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery	19
56	James Burrow	16
57	Cyril Wyche	12
58	James West (antiquary)	12
59	John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley	9
60	Sir John Hoskyns, 2nd Baronet	8
61	Presidents of the Royal Society	less than 5 views

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