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Comparison of Arab and Jewish Nobel Prize Winners
 
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Arab/Islamic Nobel Prize Winners
From a pool of   1.4   BILLION  Muslims  which are   20% of the world's population      (2 out of every 10 people) 
 
        Literature 
          1988 - Najib Mahfooz 
 
          Peace 
          1978 - Anwar El-Sadat 
          1994 - Yasser Arafat * 
          2003 - Shirin Ebadi 
 
         Chemistry 
          1999 - Ahmed Zewail 
 
         Physics 
          Abdus Salam 
 
   
          * NOTE: Norwegian, Kaare Kristiansen, was a member of the Nobel Committee.
He resigned in 1994 to protest the awarding of a Nobel "Peace Prize" to Yasser Arafat,
whom he correctly labeled a "terrorist." 
  
Jewish Nobel Prize Winners
From a pool of  12  million  Jews which are     0.2% of the World's Population    (2 out of every 1,000 people) 
 
          Literature 
 
          1910 - Paul Heyse 
          1927 - Henri Bergson 
          1958 - Boris Pasternak 
          1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon 
          1966 - Nelly Sachs 
          1976 - Saul Bellow 
          1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 
          1981 - Elias Canetti 
          1987 - Joseph Brodsky 
          1991 - Nadine Gordimer 
          2002 - Imre Kertesz 
 
          World Peace 
 
          1911 - Alfred Fried 
          1911 - Tobias Asser 
          1968 - Rene Cassin 
          1973 - Henry Kissinger 
          1978 - Menachem Begin 
          1986 - Elie Wiesel 
          1994 - Shimon Peres 
          1994 - Yitzhak Rabin 
          1995 - Joseph Rotblat 
 
          Chemistry 
 
          1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer 
          1906 - Henri Moissan 
          1910 - Otto Wallach 
          1915 - Richard Willstaetter 
          1918 - Fritz Haber 
          1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 
          1961 - Melvin Calvin 
          1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 
          1972 - William Howard Stein 
          1972 - C.B. Anfinsen 
          1977 - Ilya Prigogine 
          1979 - Herbert Charles Brown 
          1980 - Paul Berg 
          1980 - Walter Gilbert 
          1981 - Ronald Hoffmann 
          1982 - Aaron Klug 
          1985 - Herbert A. Hauptman 
          1985 - Jerome Karle 
          1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach 
          1988 - Robert Huber 
          1989 - Sidney Altman 
          1992 - Rudolph Marcus 
          1998 - Walter Kohn 
          2000 - Alan J. Heeger 
          2004 - Irwin Rose 
          2004 - Avram Hershko 
          2004 - Aaron Ciechanover 
 
          Economics 
 
          1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson 
          1971 - Simon Kuznets 
          1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow 
          1973 - Wassily Leontief 
          1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 
          1976 - Milton Friedman 
          1978 - Herbert A. Simon 
          1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein 
          1985 - Franco Modigliani 
          1987 - Robert M. Solow 
          1990 - Harry Markowitz 
          1990 - Merton Miller 
          1992 - Gary Becker 
          1993 - Rober Fogel 
          1994 - John Harsanyi 
          1994 - Reinhard Selten 
          1997 - Robert Merton 
          1997 - Myron Scholes 
          2001 - George Akerlof 
          2001 - Joseph Stiglitz 
          2002 - Daniel Kahneman 
          2005 - Robert (Israel) Aumann 
 
          Medicine 
 
          1908 - Elie Metchnikoff 
          1908 - Paul Erlich 
          1914 - Robert Barany 
          1922 - Otto Meyerhof 
          1930 - Karl Landsteiner 
          1931 - Otto Warburg 
          1936 - Otto Loewi 
          1944 - Joseph Erlanger 
          1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser 
          1945 - Ernst Boris Chain 
          1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller 
          1950 - Tadeus Reichstein 
          1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman 
          1953 - Hans Krebs 
          1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann 
          1958 - Joshua Lederberg 
          1959 - Arthur Kornberg 
          1964 - Konrad Bloch 
          1965 - Francois Jacob 
          1965 - Andre Lwoff 
          1967 - George Wald 
          1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg 
          1969 - Salvador Luria 
          1970 - Julius Axelrod 
          1970 - Sir Bernard Katz 
          1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman 
          1975 - David Baltimore 
          1975 - Howard Martin Temin 
          1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg 
          1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 
          1977 - Andrew V. Schally 
          1978 - Daniel Nathans 
          1980 - Baruj Benacerraf 
          1984 - Cesar Milstein 
          1985 - Michael Stuart Brown 
          1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 
          1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] 
          1988 - Gertrude Elion 
          1989 - Harold Varmus 
          1991 - Erwin Neher 
          1991 - Bert Sakmann 
          1993 - Richard J. Roberts 
          1993 - Phillip Sharp 
          1994 - Alfred Gilman 
          1994 - Martin Rodbell 
          1995 - Edward B. Lewis 
          1997 - Stanley B. Prusiner 
          1998 - Robert F. Furchgott 
          2000 - Eric R. Kandel 
          2002 - Sydney Brenner 
          2002 - Robert H. Horvitz 
 
          Physics 
 
          1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson 
          1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 
          1921 - Albert Einstein 
          1922 - Niels Bohr 
          1925 - James Franck 
          1925 - Gustav Hertz 
          1943 - Gustav Stern 
          1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi 
          1945 - Wolfgang Pauli 
          1952 - Felix Bloch 
          1954 - Max Born 
          1958 - Igor Tamm 
          1958 - Il'ja Mikhailovich 
          1958 - Igor Yevgenyevich 
          1959 - Emilio Segre 
          1960 - Donald A. Glaser 
          1961 - Robert Hofstadter 
          1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau 
          1963 - Eugene P. Wigner 
          1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman 
          1965 - Julian Schwinger 
          1967 - Hans Albrecht Bethe 
          1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 
          1971 - Dennis Gabor 
          1972 - Leon N. Cooper 
          1973 - Brian David Josephson 
          1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 
          1976 - Burton Richter 
          1978 - Arno Allan Penzias 
          1978 - Peter L Kapitza 
          1979 - Stephen Weinberg 
          1979 - Sheldon Glashow 
          1988 - Leon Lederman 
          1988 - Melvin Schwartz 
          1988 - Jack Steinberger 
          1990 - Jerome Friedman 
          1992 - Georges Charpak 
          1995 - Martin Perl 
          1995 - Frederick Reines 
          1996 - David M. Lee 
          1996 - Douglas D. Osheroff 
          1997 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji 
          2000 - Zhores I. Alferov 
          2003 - Vitaly Ginsburg 
          2003 - Alexei Abrikosov 
 After reviewing this list, can you supply a reason for the large discrepancy between the Arab/Islamic population's contribution to the world body and that of the Jew? There are 165 Jews listed as opposed to 6 from the Arab side.
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from the February 2006 Edition  of the Jewish Magazine 
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