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In an estimate by Baruch Shalev, between 1901 and 2000 about 65.4% of Nobel prize winners were either Christians or had a Christian background. [1] Here is a non exhaustive list of some of the prize winners who publicly identified themselves as Christians.
This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates by country. Listings for Economics refer to the related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded 577 times to 889 recipients, of which 26 awards (all Peace Prizes) were to organizations. Due to some recipients receiving multiple ...
Laureate Born Died Years Nominated Citation Nominator(s) Physics: Georges Lemaître: 17 July 1894 Charleroi, Hainut, Belgium 20 June 1966 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 1954 "for his prediction of the expanding universe." [8] Alexandre Dauvillier (1882–1979) Chemistry: Jean-Baptiste Senderens: 27 January 1856 Barbachen, Hautes-Pyrénées ...
Lists of Nobel laureates cover winners of Nobel Prizes for outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physics, and physiology or medicine. The lists are organized by prize, by ethnicity, by origination and by nationality.
Overall, 72.5% of all the Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, [87] 65.3% in Physics, [87] 62% in Medicine, [87] 54% in Economics were either Christians or had a Christian background. [ 87 ] John Hall Gladstone (1827–1902): served as president of the Physical Society between 1874 and 1876 and during 1877–1879 was president of the Chemical Society .
John Bardeen is the only laureate to win the prize twice—in 1956 and 1972. William Lawrence Bragg was the youngest Nobel laureate in physics; he won the prize in 1915 at the age of 25. He was also the youngest laureate for any Nobel prize until 2014 (when Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17). [6]
Distinguished work in experimental physics or in theoretical physics which is closely related to experimentation (Awarded with Société Française de Physique) United Kingdom: Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize: Institute of Physics: Distinguished contributions to astrophysics, gravitational physics or cosmology [5] United Kingdom: Gabor Medal and Prize
List of Catholic priests and religious awarded the Nobel Prize; List of lay Catholic scientists; List of Christian Nobel laureates; List of Christian scientists and scholars of the medieval Islamic world; List of Christians in science and technology