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Fancy Nobel Prize Winners (in scientific fields) stats from 1905 to 2025? Another chart for 10,000 words!
👉 U.S. as expected leading by far … managed to attract real talent for decades … via solid incentives and an ecosystem for it …
👉 France and UK following …
“Today, nearly 40 percent of the world’s leading scientists, or those in the top 200,000 globally by citations, are based in the United States; no other country has more than 10 percent. Half of the scientific Nobel Prize winners over the past decade call America home.“
“Between 1940 and 2020, approximately 27 percent of United States–based Nobel Prizes in science went to winners born outside the United States.“
Maverick’s takeaway: innovation and geeks for the win!
