Sigh, sorry to be rude but you people are waaaaay off topic :)

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On Aug 18, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote:

> Based on this:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_country
> 
> I can see that the UK has 117 laureates, and the US has 320 laureates
> Giving the US roughly 2.7 times as many laureates as the UK
> 
> Furthermore, from here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population
> 
> I can see that the size of the UK population is 62,041,708 and for the US is 
> 310,020,000
> Giving the US a population roughly 5 times as large as the UK
> 
> 
> Or calculated as laureates per capita
> UK: 117/62041708 = 1.89*10^-6
> US: 320/310020000 = 1.03*10^-6
> 
> 
> So there's a higher percentage of Nobel laureates from the UK than from the 
> US.
> Please check you facts before posting such claims, and cite your sources if 
> possible.
> I haven't yet done the laureates per-capita for other countries, but I'm sure 
> the results would be fascinating
> 
> 
> 
> On 18 August 2010 22:55, jitesh dundas <[email protected]> wrote:
> B) IS CORRECT..THANKS..
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Do you mean: a) Of all Nobel laureates, the most commonly occurring 
> nationality is USA
> Or that: b) the proportion of USA citizens holding a Nobel laureate is higher 
> than the proportion of nationals of any other country
> 
> 
> Because a) is a useless statement, it hasn't normalised against the relative 
> population sizes of countries participating in the Nobel prize awards...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 18 August 2010 21:11, jitesh dundas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1)Ya i KNow..Those were two separate statements.Sorry I was not clear in my 
> writing..
> 
> 2) Do you know that maximum % of the nobel laureates are from USA?
> 
> Hope that clarifies the reply..Thanks for your reply..I didnt know about his 
> research part though.Thanks..
> 
> Regards,
> JD
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 01:11 +0530, jitesh dundas wrote:
> [ . . . ]
> > USA has produced some really good scientists in the past ..Tim Berners
> > Lee is like God to me..
> 
> He is from the UK.
> 
> Research done that made him famous done in Switzerland.
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