Muslim Inventions - Nobel Prizes
By Bernie on 09 Mar 2006:
Albert Einstein in a circle of other Nobel Prize Winners in 1928 (from the left Walther Nernst, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Robert Andrews Millikan and Max von Laue).
I poked fun at the lack of Muslim patents and inventions in
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If you google "Muslim/Islamic/Arab Nobel Prize Winners" you will invariably get quite a number of websites that erroneously list ten or eleven names. They are far too generous.
MUSLIM/ARAB NOBEL WINNERS
Here are the usual suspects that most blogs mistakenly count as Muslim or Arab Nobel Laureates:
Physics
1979 - Abdus Salam - Punjabi Muslim
Literature
1957 - Albert Camus - neither Arab nor Muslim
1988 - Naguib Mahfouz - Egyptian Muslim
Peace
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat
2003 - Shirin Ebadi
2005 - Mohamed ElBaradei
2006 - Muhammad Yunus
Chemistry
1990 - Elias James Corey - neither Arab nor Muslim
1999 - Ahmed Zewail - Egyptian Arab, Muslim in Name Only
Medicine
1960 Peter Brian Medawar - neither Arab nor Muslim
1998 Ferid Murad - neither Arab nor Muslim
First off, I ignore the Nobel Peace Prize since one can be a village idiot and get one; Yasser Arafat is a perfect example.
Most of the Laureates mentioned are Neither Arab nor Muslim
- Albert Camus, neither Arab nor Muslim, happened to have been born in Algeria which at that time was a French Colony; his father was French, his mother - Spanish. An accurate ethnic designation for Camus is pied noir.
- Elias James Corey, neither Arab nor Muslim, was born and raised in America of Lebanese Christian Phoenicians. Many Christian Lebanese do not identify themselves as Arab but rather as descendants of the ancient Canaanites and prefer to be called Phoenicians.
- Sir Peter Brian Medawar, neither Arab nor Muslim, was born in Brazil of a British mother and a Lebanese Christian father. Medawar was raised and educated in the UK and was in fact an atheist.
- Ferid Murad, neither Arab nor Muslim, was born and raised in America of an Albanian Muslim father and an American Baptist mother. Murad was baptized Episcopalian in college, his wife is Presbyterian, and two of his daughters married Jews.
This leaves Naguib Mahfouz, Abdus Salam, and Ahmed Zewail. So three Muslims won the Nobel Prize in Science and literature. Out of 1.2-1.5 billion Muslims.
It should be noted that Abdus Salam was born in British India, in what is now Pakistan, and although listed as Pakistani, was ethnically a Punjabi. Mahfouz and Zewail however are both Arab. That means that two Arabs won the Nobel Prize in Science and literature. Out of 300 million Arabs.
A further note on Professor Salam, he was educated at Punjab University, St. John's College, Cambridge and Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1952. He then returned to Pakistan where he served as Professor at Government College, Lahore and Punjab University. It was here that he found intellectual pursuits being stifled. There was no postgraduate work of any value; there were no journals written; there were no scientific conferences. Given the choice between physics or Pakistan, he returned to Cambridge to take up the position of Lecturer. In 1957 he was appointed Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College. Certainly if he stayed in Pakistan he would never have accomplished anything of note, nor would he ever have won a Nobel Prize.
Salam holds the distinction of being the first Pakistani Nobel Laureate, and is the first Muslim Nobel Laureate in science.
It should also be pointed out that of the three Muslims only Salam was devout. Mahfouz and Zewail were brought up in a secular environment. Zewail is Muslim in name only. Mahfouz in fact was stabbed by Muslims for his anti-Islamic mutterings.
Both Zawail and Salam did their research in non-Muslim countries and spent almost the entirety of their lives outside of Islamic countries. So much for "Muslim" Nobel Prize Winners. I doubt any of Zawail's colleagues ever think of him as Muslim.
Sadly, Abdus Salam, being an Ahmadiyya Muslim, is not considered a true Muslim by Pakistanis.
alHafeez.org, Dr. Abdus Salam And The Nobel Prize
The National Assembly of Pakistan having legally declared the Qadianis a non-Muslim minority on Sept. 7, 1974, expelled them from the Muslim religion and entered their name in the list of non-Muslim inhabitants of the country. This legal decree is a mortal blow for them and has successfully killed their infectious germs from blossoming.
Interestingly, according to their religion, observant Muslims cannot ever accept money from the Nobel Prize since the award is actually pure interest earned on the original Nobel fortune. Islamic Law forbids either the paying or receiving of interest.
As to the Peace Prize, although I consider it irrelevant to intelligence, it is noteworthy that Shirin Ebadi's Peace Prize was awarded precisely for being anti-Islamic: promoting human rights and democracy in Iran.
But for those who persist in being technical as to how many Muslims won a Nobel Prize: OK, OK, Updated total: 8 (of which 5 [Peace] do not involve creativity at all) - if that makes you feel better (but it's really only three or two if you omit Abdus Salam).
JEWISH NOBEL WINNERS
0.2% OF WORLD'S POPULATION (16-19 Million Jews)
Literature (13)
1910 - Heyse, Paul
1927 - Bergson, Henri
1958 - Pasternak, Boris
1966 - Agnon, Yosef Shmuel (Israeli)
1966 - Sachs, Nelly
1976 - Bellow, Saul
1978 - Singer, Bashevis Isaac
1981 - Canetti, Elias
1987 - Brodsky, Joseph
1991 - Gordimer, Nadine
2002 - Kertesz, Imre
2004 - Jelinek, Elfriede
2005 - Pinter, Harold
Chemistry (31)
1905 - Baeyer, Von Adolph
1906 - Moissan, Henri
1910 - Wallach, Otto
1915 - Willstaetter, Richard
1918 - Haber, Fritz
1943 - Hevesy, de Charles George
1961 - Calvin, Melvin
1962 - Perutz, Ferdinand Max
1972 - Stein, Howard William
1972 - Anfinsen, Christian B.
1977 - Prigogine, Ilya
1979 - Brown, Charles Herbert
1980 - Berg, Paul
1980 - Gilbert, Walter
1981 - Hoffmann, Roald
1982 - Klug, Aaron
1985 - Hauptman, A. Albert
1985 - Karle, Jerome
1986 - Herschbach, R. Dudley
1988 - Huber, Robert
1989 - Altman, Sidney
1992 - Marcus, Rudolph
1994 - Olah, George A.
1998 - Kohn, Walter
2000 - Heeger, Alan J.
2004 - Ciechanover, Aaron (Israeli)
2004 - Hershko, Avram (Israeli)
2004 - Rose, Irwin
2006 - Kornberg, Roger. D.
[Update]
2008 - Chalfie, Martin
2009 - Yonath, Ada E. (Israeli)
Economics (26)
1970 - Samuelson, Anthony Paul
1971 - Kuznets, Simon
1972 - Arrow, Joseph Kenneth
1973 - Leontief, Wassily
1975 - Kantorovich, Leonid
1976 - Friedman, Milton
1978 - Simon, A. Herbert
1980 - Klein, Robert Lawrence
1985 - Modigliani, Franco
1987 - Solow, M. Robert
1990 - Markowitz, Harry
1990 - Miller, Merton
1992 - Becker, Gary
1993 - Fogel, Rober
1994 - Selten, Reinhard
1994 - Harsanyi, John C.
1997 - Merton,Robert
1997 - Scholes, Myron S.
2001 - Stiglitz, Joseph E.
2001 - Akerlof, George A.
2002 - Kahneman, Daniel (Israeli)
2005 - Aumann, Robert J. (Israeli)
[Update]
2007 - Hurwicz, Leonid (Oldest person to receive Nobel Prize)
2007 - Maskin, Eric S.
2007 - Myerson, Roger B.
2008 - Krugman, Paul
Physiology or Medicine (53)
1908 - Metchnikoff, Elie
1908 - Erlich, Paul
1914 - Barany, Robert
1922 - Meyerhof, Otto
1930 - Landsteiner, Karl
1931 - Warburg, Otto
1936 - Loewi, Otto
1944 - Erlanger, Joseph
1944 - Gasser, Spencer Herbert
1945 - Chain, Boris Ernst
1946 - Muller, Joseph Hermann
1947 - Cori, Gerty Theresa, Radnitz
1950 - Reichstein, Tadeus
1952 - Waksman, Abraham Selman
1953 - Krebs, Hans
1953 - Lipmann, Fritz Albert
1958 - Lederberg, Joshua
1959 - Kornberg, Arthur
1964 - Bloch, Konrad
1965 - Jacob, Francois
1965 - Lwoff, Andre
1967 - Wald, George
1968 - Nirenberg, W. Marshall
1969 - Luria, Salvador
1970 - Axelrod, Julius
1970 - Katz, Bernard Sir
1972 - Edelman, Maurice Gerald
1975 - Baltimore, David
1975 - Temin, Martin Howard
1976 - Blumberg, S. Baruch
1977 - Schally, Andrew V.
1977 - Yalow, Sussman Rosalyn
1978 - Nathans, Daniel
1980 - Benacerraf, Baruj
1982 - Vane, Sir John
1984 - Milstein, Cesar
1985 - Brown, Stuart Michael
1985 - Goldstein, L. Joseph
1986 - Cohen, Stanley
1986 - Levi-Montalcini, Rita
1988 - Elion, Gertrude
1989 - Varmus, Harold
1992 - Fischer, Edmond
1994 - Rodbell, Martin
1994 - Gilman, Alfred
1997 - Prusiner, Stanley B.
1998 - Furchgott, Robert F.
2000 - Kandel, Eric R.
2000 - Greengard, Paul
2002 - Brenner, Sydney
2002 - Horvitz, H. Robert
2004 - Axel, Richard
2006 - Fire, Andrew Z.
Physics (49)
1907 - Michelson, Abraham Albert
1908 - Lippmann, Gabriel
1921 - Einstein, Albert
1922 - Bohr, Niels
1925 - Franck, James
1925 - Hertz, Gustav
1943 - Stern, Otto
1944 - Rabi, Issac Isidor
1945 - Pauli, Wolfgang
1952 - Bloch, Felix
1954 - Born, Max
1958 - Tamm, Igor
1958 - Frank, Ilya
1959 - Segre, Emilio
1960 - Glaser, A. Donald
1961 - Hofstadter, Robert
1962 - Landau, Davidovich Lev
1963 - Wigner, Eugene P.
1965 - Feynman, Phillips Richard
1965 - Schwinger, Julian
1967 - Bethe, Hans A.
1969 - Gell-Mann, Murray
1971 - Gabor, Dennis
1972 - Cooper, Leon N.
1973 - Josephson, David Brian
1975 - Mottleson, Benjamin
1976 - Richter, Burton
1978 - Penzias, Allan Arno
1979 - Weinberg, Stephen
1979 - Glashow, Sheldon
1981 - Schawlow, Arthur
1987 - Müller, K. Alexander
1988 - Lederman, Leon
1988 - Schwartz, Melvin
1988 - Steinberger, Jack
1990 - Friedman, Jerome
1992 - Charpak, Georges
1995 - Reines, Frederick
1995 - Perl, Martin
1996 - Osheroff, Douglas D.
1996 - Lee, David M
1997 - Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude
2000 - Alferov, Zhores I.
2003 - Abrikosov, Alexei A.
2003 - Ginzburg, Vitaly L.
2004 - Politzer, H. David
2004 - Gross, David J.
2005 - Glauber, Roy J.
Total 172 (I am not counting Peace Prize winners)
The following is for reference only, I do not count them as intellectual achievements:
Peace Prize
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
(For a complete list of Jewish Nobel Prize Winners see this page of the Israel Science and Technology Website.)
No wonder Muslims hate Jews: It's so embarrassing to see what Jews have accomplished compared to a population 100 times larger. But in some respects one may wonder if indeed Jews control the world - it seems they control the Nobel Prize Awards Committee.
It would do Muslims well to start teaching their children important things other than how to blow themselves up. Please consider:
If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.
If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.
Other bloggers on Nobel Prizes and Jewish Creativity:
A deeper look Blog, Google buys search algorithm invented by Israeli student
Despite the fact that they are so small in size, however, Israelis continue to be world leaders in innovation. The following is but one recent example:
Search engine giant Google recently acquired an advanced text search algorithm invented by Ori Alon, an Israeli student.Orion, as it is called, which Alon developed with faculty, relates only to the most relevant textual results. In addition the software, which currently operates only in English, offers a list of topics directly related to the original source.
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- ??!! Is it a serious problem with Muslims? Or the Nobel committee? Btw, how many Hindus or Chinese got this? Or, someone is claiming Jews are the most brilliant race ever [ahem... after Christians, obviously].
- Its strange coming across these websites. People get so caught up with this stuff. I have a philosophy, and I'm not saying its a good one. But here goes, I never worry about what I am not willing to change. I converted to Islam, I'm Black, and I think its ipmortant to make the distinction between "Nation of Islam" and "Islam". They are not one and the same. I do not recognize Nation of Islam as Islam, there are reasons for that which I will clarify if I am requested to do so. I didn't convert to this religion because I needed a religion, or because I like beards, or I like the nagative attention, or I like to dress like muslims, or I love eating with my hands, or any of the Islamic traditions, in fact, I'm egnostic by nature. I converted to this religion because it is the undeniable truth, plain and simple. I questioned this religion for years before I converted, I could find no doubt in it. I find far too many people don't take the time to get the facts instead of taking statements out of context. I mean, anyone can pull excerpts from texts and misconstrue their meaning. If I found any doubt in this religion, I would not be muslim, and its as simple as that. I could care less what religion I belong too, as long as it is the 100% Truth, I will follow it. Personally, I could care less about religion. I grew up in a Christian household, but I have had a problem with my religion since I was 9 years old. I spent many years exploring religions, mormon, judaism, lived with Amish, Menonite, and researched many others, untill I came across Islam. What I'm trying to understand is this. Why are muslims being grouped into this big heap. Its like "me" saying I'm christian, yet I don't believe Jesus is the son of God, and I don't go to church, etc. Is that person muslim. So, does this mean, if I'm born a woman, If I want, I can call myself a man? Muslim has a specific definition and there is very specific criteria. People that blow themselves up, are not muslims, they are simply people that blow themselves up, lol. As Suicide in Islam is Forbidden. Anywho, please tell me your thoughts, and if you wish to know how I came to this religion, I'd be glad to share it with you, believe it or not, I started to question life and my religion when I was nine. By the way, thank you for clarifying those facts concerning 1001 muslim inventions. Peace.
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