... 1901 and 2009. Given their numbers, they should have earned only one of the 502 Nobels awarded for physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology. They have won 123. They have earned 38 percent of all Nobel Prizes for economics and 67 percent of the John Clarke Bates Medals for promising economists under age 40. They have earned 11 percent of the Nobel prizes for literature and 20 percent of the Pulitzer Prizes for nonfiction. One-fourth of the Field Medal winners are Jews. (For more, see http://wiki.answers ...
