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Rank   Countries  Amount 
# 1   United States: 270 
# 2   United Kingdom: 100 
# 3   Germany: 77 
# 4   France: 49 
# 5   Sweden: 30 
# 6   Switzerland: 22 
# 7   Netherlands: 15 
# 8   Italy: 14 
# 9   Denmark: 13 
# 10   Japan: 12 
# 11   Austria: 11 
# 12   Canada: 10 
# 13   Belgium:
# 14   Norway:
= 15   Australia:
= 15   Spain:
= 17   Ireland:
= 17   Poland:
# 19   Hungary:
= 20   China:
= 20   Slovakia:
= 20   Czech Republic:
= 20   Greece:
= 20   Portugal:
= 20   Mexico:
= 20   Finland:
= 27   Nigeria:
= 27   Iceland:
= 27   Korea, South:
= 27   Vietnam:
= 27   Burma:
= 32   Luxembourg:
= 32   New Zealand:
= 32   Turkey:
= 32   Singapore:
= 32   Laos:
= 32   Brunei:
= 32   Malaysia:
= 32   Cambodia:
= 32   Philippines:
= 32   Hong Kong:
= 32   Thailand:
= 32   Indonesia:
= 32   Taiwan:
Weighted average: 15.5  



DEFINITION: Number of Nobel Prize Laureates 1901-2002

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Mo Gho
13th October 2009
You 're missing Egypt too

Egypt have four Nobel Prize Laureates to date:



1. Mohamed ElBaradei, Peace, 2005
2. Ahmed Zewail, Chemistry, 1999
3. Naguib Mahfouz, Literature, 1988
4. Anwar El Sadat, Peace, 1978
richard
7th October 2009
Why does Israel not appear on this list? They have 9 Nobel Prize winners to date!
Manish
5th October 2009
This table does not seem to have the accurate data... India, according to Wikipedia, has 8 Nobel laureates - check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_country#India
russell
29th June 2009
Australia has 10 Nobel Laureates, where did you get your data from? The British?
grmike
26th June 2009
Canada has 17
Australia has 9
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Alvaro Zuniga Cerutti. (Canada.)
12th September 2006
You are missing Chile,with 2 Nobel Prices.The first one in 1945(Gabriela Mistral)and the second one in 1971(Pablo Neruda)Both of them in Literature.
Alexos
24th January 2006
You've obviously forgot a lot of people, including García Márquez, 1982 winner of Literature' Nobel Prize. I've reviewed the official database where you state you found the data and there is no reference of nationality, just names (where Garía Márquez is included)
Mirza
26th November 2005
You forgot to mention that Bosnia has 2 Nobel Prize winners, one for literature and another one for chemistry, what's up with that?
sowmya
20th October 2005
Its very unforunate that India is not in the above list, I wish to thank Amit Agarwal for giving info about Indian Nobel prize winners names since I wanted the details very badly and could not find it together anywhere
Esteban Varas
19th September 2005
I just wanted to say that Chile has two Nobel Prize (Literature) Winners and none of them are listed. They are Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda. It should be fixed.
John S
19th September 2005
This website erroneously lists New Zealand as having 0 Nobel laureates - in fact it has three to my knowledge: Ernest Rutherford, born 1871 in Nelson, NZ, awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1908 (quite an important guy, I would have thought, since he first split the atom and led the way to atomic power - and the atom bomb); Maurice Wilkins, born 1916 in Pongaroa, NZ, joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 for the unravelling of DNA along with Crick & Watson; and more recently, Alan MacDiarmid, born Masterton, NZ, in 1927, joint winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Not bad for a country whose population has never risen much above 3million and is stuck at the bottom of the world.
Georgy
2nd September 2005
Till 2002 Israel had 1 Nobel prize (1966, Literature, Samuel Agnon)
Ivan
17th August 2005
South Africa has infact had Ten Nobel Peace Prize winners

Albert Luthuli, 1960
1960 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate: President of the African National Congress in South Africa.

Desmond Tutu, 1984
1984 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate: Bishop of Johannesburg and former Secretary General South African Council of Churches (S.A.C.C.). For his work against apartheid.

FW de Klerk, 1993
1993 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Nelson Mandela, 1993
1993 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Aaron Klug, 1982
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982: For his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.


Max Theiler, 1951
1951 Nobel Laureate in Medicine: For his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it. Read more about Max Theiler’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Alan M. Cormack, 1979
1979 Nobel Laureate in Medicine: For the development of computer assisted tomography.

Sydney Brenner, 2002
2002 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine: For his discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death.

Nadine Gordimer, 1991
1991 Nobel Laureate in Literature: Who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity.

JM Coetzee, 2003
2003 Nobel Laureate in Literature: Who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider.
Suchita Vemuri
Staff Editor

26th March 2005
Hi Andres, Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize for literaturwe in 1982 "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts". See: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Nobel-Prize-in-Literature#1980s.
Ian Graham
Staff Editor

22nd March 2005
While it is true that some Nobel Prize winners are missing from this list, one cannot ignore that the vast majority of prizewinners come from Europe and North America.

55 percent of the winners came from Europe. 41 percent came from North America, including 39 percent from the United States alone. There are 17 winners from Asia, or about 2 percent. Africa has only one winner according to this list, although there are some recipients missing.

Why the disparity between regions? For one thing, it is a Europe-based award, so naturally it will concentrate on Europe. Also, wealthier developed nations have more money to spend on research than developing ones, and are more likely to fund so-called “pure” science. This is usually less popular in developing countries, where engineering is often preferred because of its focus on practical, everyday problems like improving water quality.

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