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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.
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 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 ...
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]
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]
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]
Category: Lists of Nobel laureates by religion. 3 languages. ... List of Catholic priests and religious awarded the Nobel Prize; List of Christian Nobel laureates; J.
Physics 1968 University of California, Berkeley: Hiroshi Amano: Physics 2014 Nagoya University: Victor Ambros: Physiology or Medicine 2024 UMass Chan Medical School: Carl David Anderson: Physics 1936 California Institute of Technology: Philip W. Anderson: Physics 1977 Bell Labs: Christian B. Anfinsen: Chemistry 1972 National Institutes of ...