And yet another Jewish Nobel Prize Winner…

Today, Alvin Roth, an American Jew (source: JINFO.org), along with Lloyd Shapely were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics. They received the prestigious award along with $1.2 million “for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design”.
That makes a total of three Jewish Nobel Prize winners this year: Serge Haroche, Robert Lefkowitz and Alvin Roth. All together, nine people were awarded Nobel prizes this year (not including the EU that won the Nobel Peace prize).

    Jews have won 41% of all the Nobel prizes for Economics.
    Last year, 5 out of the 11 Nobel laureates were Jewish.

Historically, approximately 20% of Nobel laureates have been Jewish. An astounding statistic, considering that only 0.2% of the world’s population is Jewish.



At least 187 Jews and people of half- or three-quarters-Jewish ancestry have been awarded the Nobel Prize, accounting for 22% of all individual recipients worldwide between 1901 and 2012, and constituting 36% of all US recipients during the same period.
In the research fields of Chemistry, Economics, Physics, and Physiology/Medicine, the corresponding world and US percentages are 27% and 39%, respectively.
Among women laureates in the four research fields, the Jewish percentages (world and US) are 38% and 50%, respectively.
Of organizations awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 24% were founded principally by Jews or by people of half-Jewish descent. (Jews currently make up approximately 0.2% of the world's population and 2% of the US population.)


Chemistry (33 prize winners, 20% of world total, 30% of US total)
Economics (29 prize winners, 41% of world total, 53% of US total)
Literature (13 prize winners, 12% of world total, 27% of US total)
Peace (9 prize winners, 9% of world total, 10% of US total)
Physics (50 prize winners, 26% of world total, 37% of US total)
Physiology or Medicine (53 prize winners, 26% of world total, 39% of US total)