2015 - A Fallow Year for Jewish Nobel Laureates
So yesterday I wrote that 2015 was a Good Year for Muslim Nobel Laureates. However, it was a bad year for Jewish Nobel Laureates.
It doesn't happen often but this past year, 2015, marks the first year since the new Millennium began that someone of Jewish descent had not won a Nobel Prize. That's right, the last time anyone witnessed a Jew-free Nobel Prize Award ceremony occurred in 1999. There have been Jewish Nobel Laureates in 53 of the past 57 years, missing only 4 times (1974, 1983, 1999, and 2015).
Remarkably, since 1901 when the awards were first handed out, Jews have won in 7 out of every 10 of those years; in many instances with two or more Jews winning in a single year. Most notably in 2004, seven Jews, the most ever for one year, became Nobel Laureates (Chemistry: Ciechanover, Hershko, Rose; Literature: Jelinek; Medicine: Axel; Physics: Gross, Politzer).
One should note that Jews garnered more Nobel Laureates in that one year than Muslims have ever been able to rack up in all of the 111 years that Nobel Prizes were awarded. If you're interested, that would be four or possibly five Muslims.
The Golden Age of the Arabs
A long time ago, in lands far, far away, there existed a people who translated the books of the Greeks, the Hindus, the Persians, and other great cultures and refined the ideas within, improved upon them and spread them throughout the known world. Those Arabic speaking peoples were Jews, Christians, and Arabs who spawned one of the great Golden Ages in human history (often incorrectly attributed to Muslims). It was Muslims like Al-Ghazali who finally put an end to the great advances in philosophy, chemistry, mathematics, and medicine of that era and who eventually helped plunge Islam into its dark ages from whence it has never recovered.
If those who are now living behind the Crescent Curtain only renounce Islam, there is a chance that they too can be like the Jews and be productive, creative, and useful human beings.
