Only One Jew Wins Nobel Prize in 2014
Every year I update my 2006 article Muslim Inventions - Nobel Prizes adding the latest Nobel Laureates of Jewish descent. At least 186 Jews (not counting Peace Prize) and people of half- or three-quarters-Jewish ancestry have been awarded the Nobel Prize since 1901 accounting for almost 22% of 870 total laureates.
If Jews were likewise represented in the world population, there would be more Jews than Muslims. Since that 2006 article I have added 22 Jews to the roster of Nobel Prize winners in the sciences with 6 Jews added in 2013 alone.
But 2014 was an off-year with only a single Jew winning a Nobel Prize: Patrick Modiano, a French novelist of Italian Jewish descent, a recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Interestingly, Modiano is barely known outside of France with only a few of his works available in English; which I am sure will change beginning now.
It should be noted that there are only three years in the past 55 when not even a single Jew has won a Nobel in a given year: 1974, 1983, 1999. How did that happen?
In the photo above we see a sign on Nobel Laureates Boulevard in a town just outside of Tel Aviv, Israel. That city, Rishon LeZion, has a street in it dedicated to honoring all Jewish Nobel laureates with a monument featuring a plaque for each one.
At least the town leaders wisely restricted the monuments only to Jews who have received the Nobel Prize rather than to all Jews who have contributed immensely to mankind in the past 100 years, otherwise the street would have to stretch around the globe a few times to accommodate all the monuments.
I was thinking of making a playroom in my house with monuments dedicated to all the great contributions Muslims have made to civilization in the past 100 years. It's a small playroom.
