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By one estimate made by Weijia Zhang from Arizona State University and Robert G. Fuller from University of Nebraska–Lincoln, between 1901 and 1990, 60% of Physics Nobel prize winners had Christian backgrounds. [2]
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 .
Laureate Born Died Field Citation Nominator(s) 1958 Georges Pire, O.P. (religious name: Dominique) 10 February 1910 Dinant, Namur, Belgium 30 January 1969 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium Peace "for his efforts to help refugees to leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity." [1]
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Victor Franz Hess (1883–1964) – Austrian-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who discovered cosmic rays. George de Hevesy (1885–1966) – Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate [32] Charles Hermite (1822–1901) – mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, elliptic functions, and algebra
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.
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to 226 individuals as of 2024. [5] The first prize in physics was awarded in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, of Germany, who received 150,782 SEK. John Bardeen is the only laureate to win the prize twice—in 1956 and 1972.
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]