100 Years of Nobel Prizes provides a detailed statistical analysis of what is required to win a Nobel, why it sometimes takes a long time to collect the Award, and what the prizes have meant to human progress. After the Nobel Prizes are announced each October, do you ever wonder: • How many scientists have won two Nobels during their career? • Could Nobels run in families? • Does luck ever play a role in a Nobel Award? • Have any undeserving achievements ever been recognized? • Have some deserving individuals been passed over? • What do U.S. President’s Roosevelt and Wilson have in common? • How many women have won the Nobel Prize in Economics? • Have Alfred Nobel’s purposes in establishing the awards been met? • Do some universities have an inside track on winning Nobels? • Has immigration played a role in awarding the Nobel prize? • Why have nearly 30% of the Nobel prizes gone to a group representing only about .02% of the world’s population? Learn the fascinating answers to these and other questions discovered by Baruch A. Shalev, an Israeli geneticist, who began wondering whether one of the principle findings of a lifetime of animal research might also apply to human beings. After his retirement, he selected Nobel prize-winners as a population universe to study. This book is the result of his investigations.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; Statistical Analysis; Number of Nobel Prize Winners by Category and Gender; Nationality of Nobel Prize Winners; Nationality of Nobel Prize Winners—Population and Index; Table of Total Number of Nobel Prize Winners—By Nationality; Nationality of Nobel Prize Winners—Major Democratic Countries; Distribution of Nobel Prizes—By Country, Categories and Years Leading Institutions Where Nobel Prize Winners were Educated; Universities/Institutes Whose Researchers Have Received Nobel Prizes; Age at Publication and the Interval to Winning the Nobel Prize; Age of Nobel Prize Winners; Women As Winners of the Nobel Prize During the First 100 Years; Collaboration and Simultaneous Work Leading to Nobel Prizes; Other Awards Earned by Nobel Prize Winners Between 1901 and 2000; Academic Degrees of Nobel Prize Winners Between 1900 and 2000; Religion of Nobel Prize Winners; Birth Dates of Laureates by Seasons and Astrological Signs; Commentary; Luck, Genius, and Environment; Major Innovations of Nobel Prize Laureates Between 1901 and 2000; Nobel Prizes Within Families; Winners of More than One Nobel Prize—or Rejecting It; Brain Migration; Marriages, Divorces, and Childless Instances of Laureates; Nobel Laureates Imprisoned or Killed; Have the Goals of Alfred Nobel Been Fulfilled in the Past 100 Years?; Summary and Conclusions; Appendix; List of Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry; List of Nobel Prize Winners in Physiology or Medicine; List of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics; List of Nobel Prize Winners in Economics; List of Nobel Prize Winners in Literature; List of Nobel Prize Winners in Peace; Selected Bibliography; Nobel Prize Winners of 2001 and 2002; Index