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ISLAM AND JUDAISM CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORLD
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Posted on 05/07/2002 9:54:28 AM PDT by besieged

ARAB/ISLAMIC NOBEL WINNERS
19.6% of World's Population.....2 billion

Literature
1957 - Albert Camus
1988 - Najib Mahfooz 1988.

Peace
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat

Chemistry
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewail

Medicine
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad

JEWISH NOBEL WINNERS
0.2% OF WORLD'S POPULATION............14.1 Million Jews

Literature
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer

World Peace
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

Chemistry
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1972 - William Howard Stein
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1989 - Sidney Altman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Rober Fogel

Medicine
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - David Baltimore
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis

Physics
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1995 - Martin Perl

(Population Info:
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, Ill., Britannica Book of the Year, 1999)


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KEYWORDS: islam; judaism; nobelprize
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I think the facts speak for themselves. An interesting commentary on the cultural differences between the "Semites".
1 posted on 05/07/2002 9:54:28 AM PDT by besieged
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To: dennisw; yehuda; veronica; tomahawk; topquark;
Ping, just fyi.
2 posted on 05/07/2002 9:55:45 AM PDT by besieged
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To: besieged
Although this is interesting, the Nobel people have lost all credibility. They gave the Peace Prize to Arafat and Perez one year -- and regret giving to Perez!!!
3 posted on 05/07/2002 9:57:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: besieged
Yeah. If I were standing on the 98th floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center after that plane hit the building, I'd realize that all the Nobel Prizes in the world weren't going to do me much good.
4 posted on 05/07/2002 9:58:58 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: besieged
Does this explain the preponderance of Jewish lawyers, too? Or Jewish jewelers?

If the Arabic peoples are not out there winning secular awards, maybe it's because they are more interested in spiritual endeavors.

5 posted on 05/07/2002 10:02:47 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: besieged
Arab mathematicians and scientists led the world 1000 years ago. Many sciientific advances in Europe of the past 300 years were essentially rediscoveries of work that had been done long before. Even something so basic as Snell's sine law of refraction was rediscovered through Alhazen's work centuries earlier.

But then something happened to the great Islamic civilization, and make no mistake, it was the most advanced on earth at the time. A lot of the destruction took place in present day Iran and Iraq and was done by the Mongol Hordes. They burned it to the ground. It's been hard to recover from that, and it will be impossible to recover with quasi-religious bandits destroying everything they touch.

6 posted on 05/07/2002 10:04:46 AM PDT by RightWhale
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To: besieged
And your conclusion is.....?
7 posted on 05/07/2002 10:05:05 AM PDT by Austin Willard Wright
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To: besieged
Mega-bump!
8 posted on 05/07/2002 10:05:47 AM PDT by Surge-on
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To: RightWhale
Arab mathematicians and scientists led the world 1000 years ago

Proof please

9 posted on 05/07/2002 10:07:42 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: AppyPappy
Snell's Law, look it up. There's more.
10 posted on 05/07/2002 10:09:40 AM PDT by RightWhale
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To: LurkedLongEnough
If the Arabic peoples are not out there winning secular awards, maybe it's because they are more interested in spiritual endeavors.

Yeh, like blowing up 3000+ innocent people, or sending an unending stream of psycho-bombers to murder babies and women.... Some religion!?!?
Islam = false religion

11 posted on 05/07/2002 10:12:31 AM PDT by Surge-on
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To: besieged
Here is one glaring omission that caught my eye immediately. In 1979 three, not two were physicists awarded the prize: Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and Abdus Salam.

They received the price for

"their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current".

Even a non-scientist like me knows that the work of these three is in a category of its own.

Also from the official Nobel Web site, this bio on Salam:

Abdus Salam is known to be a devout Muslim, whose religion does not occupy a separate compartment of his life; it is inseparable from his work and family life. He once wrote: "The Holy Quran enjoins us to reflect on the verities of Allah's created laws of nature; however, that our generation has been privileged to glimpse a part of His design is a bounty and a grace for which I render thanks with a humble heart."

There may be other inaccuracies in your list, but I haven't the time to check.

Finally, remember what the fine print in the mutual fund sales brochures says: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

12 posted on 05/07/2002 10:12:34 AM PDT by tictoc
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To: RightWhale
quasi-religious bandits destroying everything they touch.

That's what Islam is, was, and ever shall be.

13 posted on 05/07/2002 10:14:24 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: tictoc
Oh that's encouraging.
14 posted on 05/07/2002 10:15:48 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Sure they are interested in spiritual endeavors, such as killing infidels and training their young ones to be homocide bombers.
15 posted on 05/07/2002 10:16:18 AM PDT by MEGoody
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To: besieged
And your point is?? (Just kidding)

The Muslims peaked 400 years ago and haven't contributed anything since they founded some of basics in math several hundred years ago.

16 posted on 05/07/2002 10:16:26 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: RightWhale
Can't find a Snell's Law
17 posted on 05/07/2002 10:17:36 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Surge-on
It is a spiritual endeavour. It's just that the spirit that informs them is Satan.
18 posted on 05/07/2002 10:18:03 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: besieged
Great although 1,000 years ago they were very advanced, I and my family live NOW!

And NOW I cannot get on a plane and visit the Church of the Nativity or Jerusalem!

But the 1000 years ago crowd can visit Mecca and Medina!

19 posted on 05/07/2002 10:18:24 AM PDT by Kay Soze
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To: tictoc
Finally, remember what the fine print in the mutual fund sales brochures says: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

No, not if your strategy is to wipe all Jews so therefore you win by default. Islam a peaceful religion.

20 posted on 05/07/2002 10:18:36 AM PDT by Surge-on
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