The Nobel Prize is an annual, international prize first awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. An associated prize in Economics has been awarded since 1969. Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 850 individuals.
According to 100 Years of Nobel Prize (2005), a review of Nobel prizes awarded between 1901 and 2000, 65.4% of Nobel Prize Laureates, have identified Christianity in its various forms as their religious preference (423 prizes). Overall, Christians have won a total of 78.3% of all the Nobel Prizes in Peace, 72.5% in Chemistry, 65.3% in Physics, 62% in Medicine, 54% in Economics and 49.5% of all Literature awards.
The three primary divisions of Christianity are Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. between 1901 and 2000 reveals that 654 Laureates 32% have identified Protestant in its various forms (210 prize), 20.3% were Christians (no information about their denominations) (133 prize), (11.6%) have identified as Catholic and (1.6%) have identified as Eastern Orthodox.
According to study that done by University of Nebraskaâ€"Lincoln in 1998 found that 60% of Nobel prize laureates in physics from 1901 to 1990 had a Christian background.
Alfred Nobel who established the prizes in 1895, through baptism and confirmation Alfred Nobel was Lutheran and he frequented regularly the Church of Sweden Abroad.
Christians make up over 33.2% of the worlds population and have earned 65.4% of Nobel prizes.
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See also
- List of Nobel Peace Laureates
- List of black Nobel Laureates
- List of Jewish Nobel laureates
- List of Muslim Nobel laureates
- Lists of Christians
- List of Christian thinkers in science
- List of Catholic scientists
- List of Roman Catholic cleric-scientists
- Lists of people by belief
- List of Nobel laureates by country
- List of Nobel laureates
- List of female Nobel laureates
- Lists of People