Nobel Prizes by Country - Evolution of National Physics Nobel Prize Shares in the 20th Century, by Country of Birth (Juergen Schmidhuber, 2010) (original) (raw)

Figure 2: Physics Nobel Prizes 1901-2009: Evolution of cumulative national shares by country of birth. Countries are ordered from upper left to lower right corner by the year their first laureate received a Nobel Prize fraction. The vertical width of a nation's colored band at each year measures its percentage of all Physics Prizes up to that year (image height = 100%). Germany took the lead in 1901, the Netherlands caught up in 1902, the UK in 1904; the UK took the lead in 1906, then shared it in 1907 with Germany, which then led alone until 1976 (except for the period 1951-54 when the UK caught up for 3 years). In 1976, German-born shared the lead with US-born, who took over for good in 1977. Note the substantial differences to the citizenship-based ranking, reflecting brain drain to the US (and the UK). From Evolution of National Nobel Prize Shares in the 20th Century,Jürgen Schmidhuber, 2010. PDF. HTML.
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