Jewish Nobel laureates

[Genady]

Jews comprise a disproportionally large part of Nobel laureates:

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Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023,^[1] at least 214 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. For comparison, 65.4% of Nobel prize winners were either Christians or had a Christian background.^[2] Jews comprise only 0.2% of the world's population, meaning their share of winners is 110 times their proportion of the world's population.

(List of Jewish Nobel laureates - Wikipedia).

Is there a scientifically accepted explanation to this phenomenon?

[swansont]

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[Genady]

As Nobel Prizes are often awarded many years after the work has been done, it might be illuminating to see when the prized contributions actually happened. Was there a narrower timeframe when Jews excelled in sciences and math that can be related to certain societal/historical events?

[StringJunky]

35 minutes ago, Genady said:

As Nobel Prizes are often awarded many years after the work has been done, it might be illuminating to see when the prized contributions actually happened. Was there a narrower timeframe when Jews excelled in sciences and math that can be related to certain societal/historical events?

 

9 hours ago, Genady said:

Jews comprise a disproportionally large part of Nobel laureates:

(List of Jewish Nobel laureates - Wikipedia).

Is there a scientifically accepted explanation to this phenomenon?

If this is because you think Jews are historically maligned, Zionists are gradually being cognitively separated from Orthodox Judaism in public discourse by practicing Torah-respecting Jews and other objective historians. The focus for the dischord is gradually on the latter who, in the opinion of many Orthodox Jews, are the prime instigators of the geopolitical issues since the 1890's.

On the OP, it is probably because there was cultural disposition towards academic pursuits.

[Genady]

51 minutes ago, StringJunky said:

 

If this is because you think Jews are historically maligned, Zionists are gradually being cognitively separated from Orthodox Judaism in public discourse by practicing Torah-respecting Jews and other objective historians. The focus for the dischord is gradually on the latter who, in the opinion of many Orthodox Jews, are the prime instigators of the geopolitical issues since the 1890's.

On the OP, it is probably because there was cultural disposition towards academic pursuits.

I do not think that Zionism and Orthodox Judaism had any significant effect on average Jews. I rather think of possible effects of mass migration of rural Eastern European Jews to cities in the West and in Russia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.

I think that this cultural disposition is a myth. The preference for academic pursuits could be one of the outcomes of the abovementioned migration.

[StringJunky]

17 minutes ago, Genady said:

I do not think that Zionism and Orthodox Judaism had any significant effect on average Jews. I rather think of possible effects of mass migration of rural Eastern European Jews to cities in the West and in Russia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.

I think that this cultural disposition is a myth. The preference for academic pursuits could be one of the outcomes of the abovementioned migration.

OK.