RE: Jewish Nobel Prize winners
http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/jewish-nobel-prize-winners/Jewish Nobel Prize WinnersAt least 170 Jews and persons of half-Jewish ancestry have been awarded the Nobel Prize,1 accounting for 22% of all individual recipients worldwide between 1901 and 2005, and constituting 37% of all US recipients2 during the same period. In the scientific research fields of Chemistry, Economics, Medicine, and Physics, the corresponding world and US percentages are 26% and 39%, respectively. (Jews currently make up approximately 0.25% of the world’s population and 2% of the US population.)
* Chemistry (28 prize winners, 19% of world total, 27% of US total)
* Economics (22 prize winners, 39% of world total, 53% of US total)
* Literature (13 prize winners, 13% of world total, 27% of US total)
* Physiology or Medicine (52 prize winners, 28% of world total, 42% of US total)
* Peace (9 prize winners, 10% of world total, 11% of US total)3
* Physics (46 prize winners, 26% of world total, 38% of US total)