If you have ever thought of the Nobel Prize winners, now do read the article about Nobel Prize winners by religion: Jewesh, Christian, Muslim and non-religious. Insider Monkey has recently published an interesting article about this topic. It is interesting to think about which religious group leads in terms of most number of Nobel Prize winners.
There is an inherent sense of pride when you see the names of the people with the same religious beliefs as yourself making a contribution that merited the award of the esteemed Nobel Prize.
Now without a further ado let’s see what Insider Monkey has investigated for us. We have picked some winners from every group, it’s very interesting to see so many genious people on the lists.
Jewish Nobel Prize winners
# Name Year Country Field
1 Adolf von Baeyer 1905 Germany Chemistry
2 Henri Moissan 1906 France Chemistry
3 Otto Wallach 1910 Germany Chemistry
4 Richard Willstätter 1915 Germany Chemistry
5 Fritz Haber 1918 Germany Chemistry
6 George de Hevesy 1943 Hungary Chemistry
7 Melvin Calvin 1961 United States Chemistry
8 Max Perutz 1962 United Kingdom Chemistry
9 Christian B. Anfinsen 1972 United States Chemistry
10 William Howard Stein 1972 United States Chemistry
11 Ilya Prigogine 1977 Belgium Chemistry
Muslim Nobel Prize winners
# Name Year Country Field
1 Anwar al-Sadat 1978 Egypt Peace
2 Yasser Arafat 1994 Palestine Peace
3 Shirin Ebadi 2003 Iran Peace
4 Mohamed El Baradei 2005 Egypt Peace
5 Muhammad Yunus 2006 Bangladesh Peace
6 Tawakel Karman 2011 Yemen Peace
7 Malala Yousafzai 2014 Pakistan Peace
8 Naguib Mahfouz 1988 Egypt Literature
Christian Nobel Prize winners
# Name Year Country Fields
1 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen 1901 Germany Physics
2 Hendrik Lorentz 1902 Netherlands Physics
3 Pieter Zeeman 1902 Netherlands Physics
4 Antoine Henri Becquerel 1903 France Physics
5 Lord Rayleigh 1904 United Kingdom Physics
6 Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard 1905 Austria-Hungary, Germany Physics
7 Joseph John Thomson 1906 United Kingdom Physics
8 Guglielmo Marconi 1909 Italy Physics
9 Max von Laue 1914 Germany Physics
10 William Henry Bragg 1915 United Kingdom Physics
11 Charles Glover Barkla 1917 United Kingdom Physics
12 Johannes Stark 1919 Germany Physics
13 Robert Andrews Millikan 1923 United States Physics
Non-Religious Nobel Prize winners
# Name Field
1 Svante Arrhenius Chemistry
2 Paul D. Boyer Chemistry
3 John Cornforth Chemistry
4 Frédéric Joliot-Curie Chemistry
5 Irène Joliot-Curie Chemistry
6 Richard R. Ernst Chemistry
7 Herbert A. Hauptman Chemistry
8 Roald Hoffmann Chemistry
9 Harold W. Kroto Chemistry
10 Jean-Marie Lehn Chemistry
11 Peter D. Mitchell Chemistry
For any further interesting information read Insider Monkey’s article about Nobel Prize winners by religion: Jewesh, Christian, Muslim and non-religious.
