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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.
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, France 26 September 1937 Barbachen, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
Nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too. Winston Churchill (1874–1965) 1945, 1950 United Kingdom: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940–1945, 1951–1955) Churchill was nominated for his efforts to end World War II. Won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature. [56] Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) 1945, 1948 Soviet Union
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.
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysik) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel (who died in 1896), awarded for outstanding contributions in physics. [1]
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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.
Distribution of Christians in Nobel Prizes between 1901 and 2000 [224] According to 100 Years of Nobel Prizes a review of Nobel prizes award between 1901 and 2000 reveals that (65.4%) of Nobel Prizes Laureates, have identified Christianity in its various forms as their religious preference (427 prizes). [225]