Something to think about....

by zeroday 22 Replies latest jw friends

  • zeroday
    zeroday

    The global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population.
    They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

    Literature:
    1988 - Najib Mahfooz

    Peace:
    1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
    1994 - Yaser Arafat

    Physics:
    1990 - Elias James Corey
    1999 - Ahmed Zewail

    Medicine:
    1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
    1998 - Ferid Mourad


    The global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, or about 0.02% of the world population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

    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 World

    Peace:
    1911 - Alfred Fried
    1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
    1968 - Rene Cassin
    1973 - Henry Kissinger
    1978 - Menachem Begin
    1986 - Elie Wiesel
    1994 - Shimon Peres
    1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

    Physics:
    1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
    1906 - Henri Moissan
    1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
    1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
    1910 - Otto Wallach
    1915 - Richard Willstaetter
    1918 - Fritz Haber
    1921 - Albert Einstein
    1922 - Niels Bohr
    1925 - James Franck
    1925 - Gustav Hertz
    1943 - Gustav Stern
    1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
    1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
    1952 - Felix Bloch
    1954 - Max Born
    1958 - Igor Tamm
    1959 - Emilio Segre
    1960 - Donald A. Glaser
    1961 - Robert Hofstadter
    1961 - Melvin Calvin
    1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
    1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
    1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
    1965 - Julian Schwinger
    1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
    1971 - Dennis Gabor
    1972 - William Howard Stein
    1973 - Brian David Josephson
    1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
    1976 - Burton Richter
    1977 - Ilya Prigogine
    1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
    1978 - Peter L Kapitza
    1979 - Stephen Weinberg
    1979 - Sheldon Glashow
    1979 - Herbert Charle s Brown
    1980 - Paul Berg
    1980 - Walter Gilbert
    1981 - Roald Hoffmann
    1982 - Aaron Klug
    1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
    1985 - Jerome Karle
    1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
    1988 - Robert Huber
    1988 - Leon Lederman
    1988 - Melvin Schwartz
    1988 - Jack Steinberger
    1989 - Sidney Altman
    1990 - Jerome Friedman
    1992 - Rudolph Marcus
    1995 - Martin Perl
    2000 - Alan J. Heeger

    Economics:
    1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
    1971 - Simon Kuznets
    1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
    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 - Robert Fogel

    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 Abra ham 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 - Howard Martin Temin
    1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
    1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
    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
    1995 - Edward B. Lewis

    The Jews are not demonstrating by killing people in the streets, yelling and chanting and asking for revenge; the Jews are not brainwashing their children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of others with different religious beliefs.

    The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics; the Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.

    The Jews don't have the economic strength of petroleum, nor the possibility to force the world's media to see "their side" of the question.

    Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in their own education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.

  • blondie
    blondie

    I don't know where you are going with this but women make up at least 50% of the adult population:

    Only 33 out of the 758 Nobel prize winners are women.

    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/women.html

    Women Prize Winners

  • JeffT
    JeffT

    Elias Corey won his Nobel in Chemistry not Physics. I met him at the award ceremony at Stockholm in 1990. My Dad had been awarded half of the prize in Medicine.

    I've seen this list before, it does make one think.

  • blondie
    blondie

    Think what? That because more people of Jewish descent won more Nobel prizes than those of Arabic that it implies some deficiency on the part of Arabic people? Then if only 33 out of 758 prizes were won by women, can we imply some deficiency on the part of women?

    Blondie

  • roybatty
    roybatty
    That because more people of Jewish descent won more Nobel prizes than those of Arabic that it implies some deficiency on the part of Arabic people?

    To me it isn't a reflection of Arabic or Persian or any Islamic people but rather a sad commentary of the leaders of these countries. With the amount of wealth they are pumping out of the ground, Arabs and Persians should have the best of everything. Instead you either find a brutal dictator or super wealthy monarchy. Either way, a privledged few with all the goods and a large population of suppressed people, thus the lack of accolades.

  • zeroday
    zeroday

    Don't know how you read that into it. The point is the last sentence. There is a strong resurgance in antisemitism around the world. It seems fashionable to blame all ones problems on the Jews.

    Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in their own education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.

  • JeffT
    JeffT

    I think that for centuries Arabic peoples led the world in literature, mathematics, astronomy, physical sciences, engineering, navigation and a host of other intellectual pursuits. Now they don't. I think it is a cultural thing. Their culture leads them into other endeavors (studying religion) to the detriment of all others. That is a statement regarding their interests, not intelligence.

    I leave it to others to comment on reasons for the lack of women among Nobel prize winners.

  • JamesThomas
    JamesThomas

    The lists seem to simply show the intellectually stifeling affects of religion, some more than others.

    I feel a John Lennon song coming on.

    j

  • blondie
    blondie

    Don't go down that road. I was only using it as an example that the number of Nobel prize winners in your ethnic or gender group proves nothing about the person's worth or intelligence but more as to opportunity.

    Blondie

  • LittleToe
    LittleToe

    Who chooses the winners of the prizes?

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