>Nat Hager III >Here's an article that appeared in the New York Times yesterday. >The United States has started to lose its worldwide dominance
Totals per country are interesting but without reference to population size they can be misleading. The US does not have worldwide dominance of Nobels in per capita terms. I have seen similar claims for scoring countries in terms of Olympic medals without reference to population size. Britain need not be so proud either. Despite the economies of scale, it takes 2.5 times as many British people to produce a Nobel prize as one icelander. People (thousands) per Nobel prize according to: http://members.shaw.ca/delajara/Nobels.html 273 Iceland 387 Sweden 429 Luxembourg 485 Switzerland 487 Denmark 695 Britain 727 Ireland 740 Norway 1054 Netherlands 1124 Germany 1127 U.S.A. 1163 Austria 1404 France 2036 Belgium 2579 Finland 2584 Canada 3757 Australia 3782 Italy 4959 Portugal 5093 Hungary
