> This puts things in perspective. Interesting. > > Muslims number 1,200,000,000 . about 20% of the world's population ... > and have won the following Nobel Prizes: > > Literature: > 1957 - Albert Camus (of French parentage, but raised in North Africa) > 1988 - Najib Mahfooz. > > Peace: > 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat > 1994 - Yaser Arafat > > Chemistry: > 1990 - Elias James Corey > 1999 - Ahmed Zewail > > Medicine: > 1960 - Peter Brian Medawar > 1998 - Ferid Mourad > > > JEWISH NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS: > Jews number approximately 14,000,000 ... about 0.02% of the world's > population, which is about the population of Nepal or Morocco > > 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 World > > Peace: > 1911 - Alfred Fried > 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser > 1968 - Rene Cassin > 1973 - Henry Kissinger > 1978 - Menachem Begin > 1986 - Elie Wiesel > 1994 - Shimon Peres > 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin > > 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 > 1977 - Ilya Prigogine > 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown > 1980 - Paul Berg > 1980 - Walter Gilbert > 1981 - Roald Hoffmann > 1982 - Aaron Klug > 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman > 1985 - Jerome Karle > 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach > 1988 - Robert Huber > 1989 - Sidney Altman > 1992 - Rudolph Marcus > 2000 - Alan J. Heeger > > Economics: > 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson > 1971 - Simon Kuznets > 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow > 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 - Robert Fogel > > 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 > 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 > 1995 - Edward B. Lewis > > 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 > 1952 - Felix Bloch > 1954 - Max Born > 1958 - Igor Tamm > 1959 - Emilio Segre > 1960 - Donald A. Glaser > 1961 - Robert Hofstadter > 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau > 1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman > 1965 - Julian Schwinger > 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann > 1971 - Dennis Gabor > 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 > 1995 - Martin Perl > > > Admittedly, though, the Muslim world far exceeds the Jewish world in > the number of: > > ~terrorists > ~suicide bombers > ~slave traders -and- > ~religious leaders calling for "holy wars." > > > Maybe they should spend a little more time on education, and less time > on blaming the Jews for all their problems.