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100 Years of Nobel Prizes

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This is a very informative and interesting work.
It describes the Nobel Prize Winners in each of the major categories .It considers a wide variety of factors from nationality and religion to education. It is interesting that to the year two- thousand over forty- percent of the science winners came from the United States. And that after this came Britain around fourteen, Germany ten , and France five percent.
It is also interesting that though they constitute less than two tenths of one percent of the world's population Jews have one according to the count made in this book , thirty percent of the prizes. This figure is probably somewhat high but still the disproportionate number of Jewish winners is notable. Also certain Protestant sects have a very high proportion of Nobel winners.
The analysis however touches upon another factors beside nationality and religion. It considers the educational background of the Nobel Prize winners, and points to universities which have had many winners as students or as faculty.
There is also analysis of the ages of winners, and analysis according to gender highlighting the relative small proportion of women who have won Nobel Prizes. This is likely to change in the years ahead with greater educational opportunities for women.
This is an interesting study or rather set of studies, and is highly recommended for anyone who wishes to know about the world's most renowned prize for achievements of the Mind.

Shimon Peres, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and a Nobel Laureate himself, wrote the following to the publisher in Los Angeles in a letter dated September 23, 2002:

"Clearly [100 Years of Nobel Prizes] is the product of meticulous research over an extended period of time, and [the author's] interesting findings indeed give much food for thought."