At least 180 Jews and persons of half- or three-quarters-Jewish ancestry have been awarded the Nobel Prize, accounting for 22% of all individual recipients worldwide between 1901 and 2009, and constituting 36% of all US recipients during the same period.  In the research fields of Chemistry, Economics, Physics, and Physiology/Medicine, the corresponding world and US percentages are 27% and 39%, respectively.  Among women laureates in the four research fields, the Jewish percentages (world and US) are 38% and 50%, respectively. (Jews currently make up approximately 0.25% of the world's population and 2% of the US population.)
   
      * Chemistry (31 prize winners, 20% of world total, 28% of US total)
      * Economics (27 prize winners, 42% of world total, 56% of US total)
      * Literature (13 prize winners, 12% of world total, 27% of US total)
      * Peace (9 prize winners, 9% of world total, 10% of US total)4
      * Physics (47 prize winners, 25% of world total, 36% of US total)
      * Physiology or Medicine (53 prize winners, 27% of world total, 40% of US total)