Re:The Arab World... (Score 1)

What's interesting too is that all these years they've lived in their own countries, often as rich landmarks and states. Yet, today, the list of Muslems who won the Nobel price is quite short. (of a vast 1.3 billion people, roughly 20% of world population):

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1988 - Najib Mahfooz (Literature)
1978 - Anwar El-Sadat (Peace), 1994 - Yasser Arafat (Peace), 2003 - Shirin Ebadi (Peace), 1999 - Ahmed Zewail (Chemistry), Abdus Salam (Physics)
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From these six, only three are prizes for science. Now, the Jewish people, having been through countless crusades, persecutions, bannings and a holocaust, still have succeeded in achieving the following: (in comparison,:the Jews today, consist of about 13.2 million people, 0.2 of the worldly population).

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
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