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Showing posts with label Medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medicine. Show all posts

Friday, March 19, 2010

We won what? How many times? And now we're...wait a second!

Here is a list of all Nobel Laureates for Medicine from 1901 to date.  I have no idea what major legislation could possibly prompt a person to seek out such a list and translate (for your ease) the country of each winner.  Certainly there must be a lesson to be learned from this list.  Certainly.

Thanks to my wife, Karey for her assistance in this.



DE=Germany
CH= Switzerland
AU=Australia
SE= Sweden
DK=Denmark
ZA=South Africa (Union of-funded by USA)
PT=Portugal
BE= Belgium
HU= Hungary
AT= Austria
CA= Canada
RU=Russia

Here are the totals of some notable countries with the distinguished award on their national mantles.  Of course, nothing striking sticks out on this list at all.

USA:  92
United Kingdom:  18
Germany:  15
France:  9
Switzerland:  5
Australia: 5
Canada: 2
China: 0

Let it be known that my eyes kind of hurt after all this sorting and looking up the stupid abbreviations for these stupid countries, so I may have made a mistake or two.  I, for certain, will never be awarded a Nobel Prize for anything--especially not math.  This list was compiled by cross-referencing the list of winners by name at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/ with the year-by-year bios on each winner(s).

That's it.  That's all.
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