Nobel Prize Winners
      [ Arabs  ] [ Jews 
      ] [ Totals
      ] 
    ARABS 19.6% of World's Population 
    1.2 billion Muslims 
    Literature 
    
      - 1957 Albert Camus
 
      - 1988 - Najib Mahfooz
 
     
    Peace 
    
      - 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
 
      - 1994 - Yaser Arafat
 
     
    Chemistry 
    
      - 1990 Elias James Corey
 
      - 1999 - Ahmed Zewail
 
     
    Medicine 
    
      - 1960 Peter Brian Medawar
 
      - 1998 Ferid Mourad
 
     
       
    JEWS 0.2% of World's Population 
    14.1 Million Jews 
    Literature 
    
      - 1910 - Paul Heyse
 
      - 1927 - Henri Bergson
 
      - 1958 - Boris Pasternak
 
      - 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
 
      - 1966 - Nelly Sachs
 
      - 1976 - Saul Bellow
 
      - 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
 
      - 1981 - Elias Canetti
 
      - 1987 - Joseph Brodsky
 
      - 1991 - Nadine Gordimer
 
     
    Peace 
    
      - 1911 - Alfred Fried
 
      - 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
 
      - 1968 - Rene Cassin
 
      - 1973 - Henry Kissinger
 
      - 1978 - Menachem Begin
 
      - 1986 - Elie Wiesel
 
      - 1994 - Shimon Peres
 
      - 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
 
     
    Chemistry 
    
      - 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
 
      - 1906 - Henri Moissan
 
      - 1910 - Otto Wallach
 
      - 1915 - Richard Willstaetter
 
      - 1918 - Fritz Haber
 
      - 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
 
      - 1961 - Melvin Calvin
 
      - 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
 
      - 1972 - William Howard Stein
 
      - 1977 - Ilya Prigogine
 
      - 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
 
      - 1980 - Paul Berg
 
      - 1980 - Walter Gilbert
 
      - 1981 - Roald Hoffmann
 
      - 1982 - Aaron Klug
 
      - 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
 
      - 1985 - Jerome Karle
 
      - 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
 
      - 1988 - Robert Huber
 
      - 1989 - Sidney Altman
 
      - 1992 - Rudolph Marcus
 
      - 2000 - Alan J. Heeger
 
     
    Economics 
    
      - 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
 
      - 1971 - Simon Kuznets
 
      - 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
 
      - 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
 
      - 1976 - Milton Friedman
 
      - 1978 - Herbert A. Simon
 
      - 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
 
      - 1985 - Franco Modigliani
 
      - 1987 - Robert M. Solow
 
      - 1990 - Harry Markowitz
 
      - 1990 - Merton Miller
 
      - 1992 - Gary Becker
 
      - 1993 Rober Fogel
 
     
    Medicine 
    
      - 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
 
      - 1908 - Paul Erlich
 
      - 1914 - Robert Barany
 
      - 1922 - Otto Meyerhof
 
      - 1930 - Karl Landsteiner
 
      - 1931 - Otto Warburg
 
      - 1936 - Otto Loewi
 
      - 1944 - Joseph Erlanger
 
      - 1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
 
      - 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
 
      - 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
 
      - 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
 
      - 1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
 
      - 1953 - Hans Krebs
 
      - 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
 
      - 1958 - Joshua Lederberg
 
      - 1959 - Arthur Kornberg
 
      - 1964 - Konrad Bloch
 
      - 1965 - Francois Jacob
 
      - 1965 - Andre Lwoff
 
      - 1967 - George Wald
 
      - 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
 
      - 1969 - Salvador Luria
 
      - 1970 - Julius Axelrod
 
      - 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
 
      - 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
 
      - 1975 - David Baltimore
 
      - 1975 - Howard Martin Temin
 
      - 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
 
      - 1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
 
      - 1978 - Daniel Nathans
 
      - 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
 
      - 1984 - Cesar Milstein
 
      - 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
 
      - 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
 
      - 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
 
      - 1988 - Gertrude Elion
 
      - 1989 - Harold Varmus
 
      - 1991 - Erwin Neher
 
      - 1991 - Bert Sakmann
 
      - 1993 - Richard J. Roberts
 
      - 1993 - Phillip Sharp
 
      - 1994 - Alfred Gilman
 
      - 1995 - Edward B. Lewis
 
     
    Physics 
    
      - 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
 
      - 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
 
      - 1921 - Albert Einstein
 
      - 1922 - Niels Bohr
 
      - 1925 - James Franck
 
      - 1925 - Gustav Hertz
 
      - 1943 - Gustav Stern
 
      - 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
 
      - 1952 - Felix Bloch
 
      - 1954 - Max Born
 
      - 1958 - Igor Tamm
 
      - 1959 - Emilio Segre
 
      - 1960 - Donald A. Glaser
 
      - 1961 - Robert Hofstadter
 
      - 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
 
      - 1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
 
      - 1965 - Julian Schwinger
 
      - 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
 
      - 1971 - Dennis Gabor
 
      - 1973 - Brian David Josephson
 
      - 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
 
      - 1976 - Burton Richter
 
      - 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
 
      - 1978 - Peter L Kapitza
 
      - 1979 - Stephen Weinberg
 
      - 1979 - Sheldon Glashow
 
      - 1988 - Leon Lederman
 
      - 1988 - Melvin Schwartz
 
      - 1988 - Jack Steinberger
 
      - 1990 - Jerome Friedman
 
      - 1995 - Martin Perl
 
     
    
      
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           Number of people
           
        There are 85 times more Muslims than Jews  | 
       
      
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           Number of Nobel Prizes awarded
           
        Jews have received 16 times more Nobel Prizes than Arabs  | 
       
      
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           Per capita... Jews have
        received 1361.7 times more Nobel Prizes than Arabs, per capita.  | 
       
      
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           Draw your own
        conclusion... 
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