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)