How many Muslim Nobel Prize winners are there?

How many Muslim Nobel Prize winners are there?

12 Nobel laureates
Although Muslims constitute more than 23 percent of the world’s population, as of 2015, only 12 Nobel laureates have been Muslims, whereas 193 (22 percent) of the total 855 laureates have been Jewish, although Jews comprise less than 0.2 percent of the world’s population.

Which religion has the most Nobel Prize winners?

In an estimate by Baruch Shalev, between 1901 and 2000, about 78.3% of Peace Nobel Prize winners were either Christians or had a Christian background.

How many Nobel Prize winners are Arab?

Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 individuals. People from the Arab countries have been the recipients in four of six award categories: Peace, Chemistry, psychology or medicine, and Literature.

How many Pakistani won the Nobel Prize?

Pakistani citizens

Year Laureate Subject
1979 Abdus Salam Physics
2014 Malala Yousafzai Peace

How many Nobel Prize Pakistan has won?

How many Nobel Prizes India has won?

Among the recipients, 12 are Indians (five Indian citizens and seven of Indian ancestry or residency). Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and also first Asian to be awarded in 1913. Mother Teresa is the only woman among the list of recipients.

How many Nobel Prize laureates have been Muslims?

As of 2018, twelve Nobel Prize laureates have been Muslims, more than half in the 21st century. Seven of the twelve laureates have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, while three have been for the sciences. The recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, Abdus Salam, was a member of the Ahmadiyya community of Pakistan.

How many people have won the Nobel Peace Prize?

Seven of the twelve laureates have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, while three have been for the sciences. The recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, Abdus Salam, was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community of Pakistan.

How many Ahmadiyya have won the Nobel Peace Prize?

Seven of the twelve laureates have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, while three have been for the sciences. The recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, Abdus Salam, was a member of the Ahmadiyya community of Pakistan.

Are there any Pakistani Nobel Prize winners from Pakistan?

The recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, Abdus Salam, was a member of the Ahmadiyya community of Pakistan. Aziz Sancar is the second Turkish Nobel laureate and was awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry in the field of molecular biology in 2015.