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200 answers are accepted for “Name a Nobel laureate in Chemistry”. Kensō Soai is the rarest Nobel laureate in Chemistry in this ranking, with 539 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). Henri B. Kagan is the second-rarest with 1,332 monthly Wikipedia views, 2.47× the figure for Kensō Soai. Marie Curie is the most common Nobel laureate in Chemistry in this ranking, with 1,932,824 monthly Wikipedia views, 3,586× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 200 answers: 7,458,058. Kensō Soai is under 0.1% of that total. 40 answers are Epic or Legendary: Kensō Soai (Legendary), Henri B. Kagan (Legendary), Stanford Moore (Legendary), and 37 more.
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Marie Curie
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1,932,824 monthly Wikipedia views
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Rarity 0.000
Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).
Ranked answers 200 answers to “Name a Nobel laureate in Chemistry”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this
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Rank Answer Tier Rarity Monthly Wikipedia views 1 Kensō Soai on Wikipedia Legendary 1.000 539 2 Henri B. Kagan on Wikipedia Legendary 0.995 1,332 3 Stanford Moore on Wikipedia Legendary 0.990 2,136 4 William Howard Stein on Wikipedia Legendary 0.985 2,238 5 Cyril N. Hinshelwood on Wikipedia Legendary 0.980 2,257 6 Arthur Harden on Wikipedia Legendary 0.975 2,595 7 Odd Hassel on Wikipedia Legendary 0.970 2,763 8 William Giauque on Wikipedia Legendary 0.965 2,914 9 Richard Laurence Millington Synge on Wikipedia Legendary 0.960 2,981 10 Johann Deisenhofer on Wikipedia Legendary 0.955 2,990 11 Paul Karrer on Wikipedia Legendary 0.950 3,164 12 Archer Martin on Wikipedia Legendary 0.945 3,306 13 Yves Chauvin on Wikipedia Legendary 0.940 3,314 14 Fritz Pregl on Wikipedia Legendary 0.935 3,470 15 Ronald George Wreyford Norrish on Wikipedia Epic 0.930 3,625 16 John Howard Northrop on Wikipedia Epic 0.925 3,633 17 Ernst Otto Fischer on Wikipedia Epic 0.920 3,635 18 Alec Todd on Wikipedia Epic 0.915 3,641 19 Otto Wallach on Wikipedia Epic 0.910 3,818 20 Irwin Rose on Wikipedia Epic 0.905 3,829 21 Jens Christian Skou on Wikipedia Epic 0.899 4,049 22 James B. Sumner on Wikipedia Epic 0.894 4,096 23 Herbert A. Hauptman on Wikipedia Epic 0.889 4,098 24 Arne Tiselius on Wikipedia Epic 0.884 4,102 25 Norman Haworth on Wikipedia Epic 0.879 4,124 26 Hartmut Michel on Wikipedia Epic 0.874 4,131 27 Otto Diels on Wikipedia Epic 0.869 4,145 28 Jerome Karle on Wikipedia Epic 0.864 4,262 29 Heinrich Otto Wieland on Wikipedia Epic 0.859 4,286 30 Vincent du Vigneaud on Wikipedia Epic 0.854 4,424 31 Hans von Euler-Chelpin on Wikipedia Epic 0.849 4,440 32 William Standish Knowles on Wikipedia Epic 0.844 4,564 33 George Smith on Wikipedia Epic 0.839 4,640 34 Robert Huber on Wikipedia Epic 0.834 4,689 35 Theodore William Richards on Wikipedia Epic 0.829 4,690 36 Theodor Svedberg on Wikipedia Epic 0.824 4,806 37 F. Sherwood Rowland on Wikipedia Epic 0.819 4,820 38 Jean-Pierre Sauvage on Wikipedia Epic 0.814 4,856 39 Georg Wittig on Wikipedia Epic 0.809 4,909 40 Jacques Dubochet on Wikipedia Epic 0.804 5,000 41 William E. Moerner on Wikipedia Rare 0.799 5,001 42 Adolf Windaus on Wikipedia Rare 0.794 5,069 43 Kurt Alder on Wikipedia Rare 0.789 5,071 44 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen on Wikipedia Rare 0.784 5,084 45 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy on Wikipedia Rare 0.779 5,133 46 Friedrich Bergius on Wikipedia Rare 0.774 5,309 47 Donald J. Cram on Wikipedia Rare 0.769 5,355 48 Akira Suzuki on Wikipedia Rare 0.764 5,383 49 Wendell Meredith Stanley on Wikipedia Rare 0.759 5,468 50 Kenichi Fukui on Wikipedia Rare 0.754 5,561 51 Robert Robinson on Wikipedia Rare 0.749 5,896 52 George Porter on Wikipedia Rare 0.744 5,924 53 Paul D. Boyer on Wikipedia Rare 0.739 5,973 54 John Kendrew on Wikipedia Rare 0.734 6,125 55 Robert Bruce Merrifield on Wikipedia Rare 0.729 6,126 56 Paul L. Modrich on Wikipedia Rare 0.724 6,156 57 John E. Walker on Wikipedia Rare 0.719 6,168 58 Derek Barton on Wikipedia Rare 0.714 6,169 59 Dudley R. Herschbach on Wikipedia Rare 0.709 6,414 60 Robert Curl on Wikipedia Rare 0.704 6,440 61 Karl Ziegler on Wikipedia Rare 0.698 6,511 62 Paul Flory on Wikipedia Rare 0.693 6,572 63 Nikolay Semyonov on Wikipedia Rare 0.688 6,686 64 Jaroslav Heyrovský on Wikipedia Rare 0.683 6,735 65 Richard Willstätter on Wikipedia Rare 0.678 6,874 66 Gerhard Ertl on Wikipedia Rare 0.673 6,918 67 Paul Sabatier on Wikipedia Rare 0.668 7,078 68 Alan J. Heeger on Wikipedia Rare 0.663 7,090 69 Richard R. Schrock on Wikipedia Rare 0.658 7,134 70 Richard R. Ernst on Wikipedia Rare 0.653 7,212 71 Alan MacDiarmid on Wikipedia Rare 0.648 7,348 72 Avram Hershko on Wikipedia Rare 0.643 7,365 73 Giulio Natta on Wikipedia Rare 0.638 7,384 74 Richard F. Heck on Wikipedia Rare 0.633 7,569 75 Thomas A. Steitz on Wikipedia Rare 0.628 7,579 76 Kurt Wüthrich on Wikipedia Rare 0.623 7,599 77 Christian B. Anfinsen on Wikipedia Rare 0.618 7,653 78 Hideki Shirakawa on Wikipedia Rare 0.613 7,688 79 Hans Fischer on Wikipedia Rare 0.608 7,773 80 John Cornforth on Wikipedia Rare 0.601 7,797 81 Ryōji Noyori on Wikipedia Rare 0.601 7,797 82 Herbert C. Brown on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.593 7,895 83 Alexey Ekimov on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.588 7,980 84 Eduard Buchner on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.583 8,027 85 William Lipscomb on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.578 8,060 86 George Andrew Olah on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.573 8,157 87 Manfred Eigen on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.568 8,397 88 Gregory Winter on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.563 8,400 89 Gerhard Herzberg on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.558 8,494 90 Geoffrey Wilkinson on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.553 8,630 91 John B. Fenn on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.548 8,690 92 Sidney Altman on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.543 8,842 93 Robert S. Mulliken on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.538 8,877 94 Francis William Aston on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.533 8,899 95 Koichi Tanaka on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.528 8,968 96 Alfred Werner on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.523 8,972 97 Harry Kroto on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.518 9,181 98 Roderick MacKinnon on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.513 9,259 99 Jean-Marie Lehn on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.508 9,480 100 Tomas Lindahl on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.503 9,485 101 John Pople on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.497 9,514 102 Martin Chalfie on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.492 9,634 103 Charles J. Pedersen on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.487 10,020 104 Joachim Frank on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.482 10,077 105 Victor Grignard on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.477 10,082 106 Arieh Warshel on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.472 10,110 107 Brian Kobilka on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.467 10,185 108 Peter D. Mitchell on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.462 10,223 109 Michael Smith on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.457 10,230 110 Henry Taube on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.452 10,335 111 Aaron Ciechanover on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.447 10,344 112 Hermann Staudinger on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.442 10,516 113 Richard Henderson on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.437 11,005 114 Vladimir Prelog on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.432 11,031 115 Adolf Butenandt on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.427 11,065 116 Leopold Ružička on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.422 11,084 117 Peter Agre on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.417 11,140 118 Martin Karplus on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.412 11,355 119 Robert H. Grubbs on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.407 11,475 120 Osamu Shimomura on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.402 11,553 121 Luis Federico Leloir on Wikipedia Familiar 0.397 11,598 122 Morten P. Meldal on Wikipedia Familiar 0.392 11,698 123 Roger D. Kornberg on Wikipedia Familiar 0.387 11,739 124 Robert Lefkowitz on Wikipedia Familiar 0.382 11,806 125 Ei-ichi Negishi on Wikipedia Familiar 0.377 11,815 126 Paul J. Crutzen on Wikipedia Familiar 0.372 11,962 127 Ben Feringa on Wikipedia Familiar 0.367 12,043 128 Fraser Stoddart on Wikipedia Familiar 0.362 12,047 129 Stefan Hell on Wikipedia Familiar 0.357 12,395 130 Richard Kuhn on Wikipedia Familiar 0.352 12,635 131 Akira Yoshino on Wikipedia Familiar 0.347 12,806 132 Yuan T. Lee on Wikipedia Familiar 0.342 12,818 133 Richard Smalley on Wikipedia Familiar 0.337 13,340 134 Thomas Cech on Wikipedia Familiar 0.332 13,561 135 Paul Berg on Wikipedia Familiar 0.327 14,342 136 Edwin McMillan on Wikipedia Familiar 0.322 14,576 137 Melvin Calvin on Wikipedia Familiar 0.317 15,222 138 Henri Moissan on Wikipedia Familiar 0.312 15,529 139 Walter Gilbert on Wikipedia Familiar 0.307 15,684 140 Michael Levitt on Wikipedia Familiar 0.302 15,903 141 Walter Kohn on Wikipedia Familiar 0.296 16,000 142 Lars Onsager on Wikipedia Familiar 0.291 16,471 143 Emil Fischer on Wikipedia Familiar 0.286 16,493 144 Max Perutz on Wikipedia Familiar 0.281 16,559 145 Benjamin List on Wikipedia Familiar 0.276 17,572 146 John Polanyi on Wikipedia Familiar 0.271 17,827 147 M. Stanley Whittingham on Wikipedia Familiar 0.266 17,852 148 Frederick Soddy on Wikipedia Familiar 0.261 18,055 149 Aaron Klug on Wikipedia Familiar 0.256 18,932 150 George de Hevesy on Wikipedia Familiar 0.251 19,367 151 Willard Libby on Wikipedia Familiar 0.246 19,550 152 Dan Shechtman on Wikipedia Familiar 0.241 19,867 153 Louis E. Brus on Wikipedia Familiar 0.236 20,437 154 Robert Burns Woodward on Wikipedia Familiar 0.231 20,535 155 Moungi Bawendi on Wikipedia Familiar 0.226 20,559 156 Eric Betzig on Wikipedia Familiar 0.221 20,944 157 David MacMillan on Wikipedia Familiar 0.216 21,099 158 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff on Wikipedia Familiar 0.211 21,292 159 Wilhelm Ostwald on Wikipedia Familiar 0.206 22,306 160 William Ramsay on Wikipedia Familiar 0.201 22,493 161 Adolf von Baeyer on Wikipedia Common 0.196 22,631 162 Walther Nernst on Wikipedia Common 0.191 22,720 163 Peter Debye on Wikipedia Common 0.186 22,995 164 Roger Y. Tsien on Wikipedia Common 0.181 23,363 165 Rudolph A. Marcus on Wikipedia Common 0.176 25,639 166 Elias James Corey on Wikipedia Common 0.171 26,929 167 Harold Urey on Wikipedia Common 0.166 27,410 168 Roald Hoffmann on Wikipedia Common 0.161 27,794 169 Irving Langmuir on Wikipedia Common 0.156 29,336 170 Aziz Sancar on Wikipedia Common 0.151 30,637 171 Mario Molina on Wikipedia Common 0.146 30,922 172 Richard Robson on Wikipedia Common 0.141 33,263 173 Susumu Kitagawa on Wikipedia Common 0.136 35,955 174 Karl Barry Sharpless on Wikipedia Common 0.131 40,808 175 Ilya Prigogine on Wikipedia Common 0.126 41,315 176 Ahmed Zewail on Wikipedia Common 0.121 43,637 177 Carolyn Bertozzi on Wikipedia Common 0.116 44,211 178 Ada Yonath on Wikipedia Common 0.111 46,429 179 Carl Bosch on Wikipedia Common 0.106 50,637 180 Frederick Sanger on Wikipedia Common 0.101 51,668 181 Svante Arrhenius on Wikipedia Common 0.095 57,560 182 Emmanuelle Charpentier on Wikipedia Common 0.090 59,075 183 Frances Arnold on Wikipedia Common 0.085 62,542 184 Glenn T. Seaborg on Wikipedia Common 0.080 66,903 185 John B. Goodenough on Wikipedia Common 0.075 67,572 186 David Baker on Wikipedia Common 0.070 68,219 187 Dorothy Hodgkin on Wikipedia Common 0.065 69,703 188 Frédéric Joliot-Curie on Wikipedia Common 0.060 70,552 189 Venki Ramakrishnan on Wikipedia Common 0.055 73,746 190 Otto Hahn on Wikipedia Common 0.050 79,284 191 Kary Mullis on Wikipedia Common 0.045 118,530 192 John M. Jumper on Wikipedia Common 0.040 141,269 193 Omar M. Yaghi on Wikipedia Common 0.035 177,545 194 Jennifer Doudna on Wikipedia Common 0.030 177,595 195 Linus Pauling on Wikipedia Common 0.025 243,466 196 Ernest Rutherford on Wikipedia Common 0.020 264,809 197 Irène Joliot-Curie on Wikipedia Common 0.015 266,105 198 Fritz Haber on Wikipedia Common 0.010 301,942 199 Demis Hassabis on Wikipedia Common 0.005 1,043,620 200 Marie Curie on Wikipedia Common 0.000 1,932,824
FAQ What is the rarest Nobel laureate in Chemistry? Kensō Soai is the rarest Nobel laureate in Chemistry in this ranking, with 539 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).
How many Nobel laureate in Chemistries are there? There are 200 Nobel laureate in Chemistries in this ranking, from Kensō Soai (rarest) to Marie Curie (most common).
What is the most common Nobel laureate in Chemistry? Marie Curie is the most common Nobel laureate in Chemistry in this ranking, with 1,932,824 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).
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