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JEWISH NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
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Jews and persons of half-Jewish ancestry have been awarded at least 161
Nobel Prizes, accounting for 22% of all such prizes awarded to individuals
worldwide between 1901 and 2003, and constituting 36% of all US Nobel Prize
winners, during the same period. In the scientific research fields of
Chemistry, Economics, Medicine, and Physics, the corresponding world and US
percentages are 26% and 39%, respectively. (Jews currently make up
approximately 0.25% of the world's population and 2% of the US population.)
Chemistry (25 prize winners, 18% of world total, 26% of US total)
Economics (21 prize winners, 40% of world total, 54% of US total)
Literature (11 prize winners, 11% of world total, 27% of US total)
Physiology or Medicine (51 prize winners, 28% of world total, 42% of US
total)
Peace (9 prize winners, 10% of world total, 11% of US total)3
Physics (44 prize winners, 26% of world total, 37% of US total)
NOTES
1. This enumeration constitutes an update and an expansion of the
information on Jewish Nobel Prize winners contained in the 1997 CD ROM
edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica (EJ97), from which 118 of the
individuals listed herein were obtained. All of the additional entries (as
well as some of those obtained from EJ97) are accompanied by explanatory
footnotes.
2. Based on US nationality at time of award, according to
www.nobel.se/search/nationalities.html.
3. Percentages are based on awards to individuals only, i.e., the
computation excludes awards to organizations.
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