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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.
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]
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 .
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
The United States has the highest number of Nobel laureates in the world, with over 420 Nobel laureates. [2] Around 71% of all Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Americans; around 29% of them are immigrants from other nations. [3] U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to win a Nobel Prize of any kind, being awarded the Nobel ...
Nobel laureates by affiliation [1] Laureate Discipline Year of award Affiliation Simon Johnson: Economics 2024 Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Daron Acemoglu: Economics 2024 Massachusetts Institute of Technology: James A. Robinson: Economics 2024 University of Chicago: Alexei Abrikosov: Physics 2003 Argonne National Laboratory: Edgar Adrian
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]
The following is a list of Clarivate Citation Laureates in Physics, considered likely candidates to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. [1] Since 2024, 18 of the selected citation laureates starting in 2008 were eventually awarded the Nobel Prize: Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (2010), Dan Shechtman in Chemistry (2011), Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt (2011), François Englert ...