Sports Shemitahs April- September, 2015
What are Jewish People known For? Intelligence… Who is the symbol of intelligence? A Jewish guy born in Ulm, Germany…
How many Jews are there? Jews currently make up approximately 0.2% of the world's population and 2% of the US population.
23% of all Nobel Prize Winners… At least 194 Jews and people of half- or three-quarters-Jewish ancestry have been awarded the Nobel Prize, accounting for 23% of all individual recipients worldwide between 1901 and 2014, and constituting 36% of all US recipients during the same period.
In the scientific research fields of Chemistry, Economics, Physics, and Physiology/Medicine, the corresponding world and US percentages are 27% and 39%, respectively.
Women and organizations… Among women laureates in the four research fields, the Jewish percentages (world and US) are 35% and 50%, respectively. Of organizations awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 23% were founded principally by Jews or by people of half-Jewish descent.
And recently? Since the turn of the century (i.e., since the year 2000), Jews have been awarded 27% of all Nobel Prizes and 29% of those in the scientific research fields.