# Today's News from Europe

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-news-from-europe/311970>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 11, 2005, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-news-from-europe/311970 "2005-07-11T12:06:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-news-from-europe/311970/61 "2005-07-13T08:23:21Z")

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> Originally Posted by Paul in Saudi  
> What the heck have the Europeans done in the last (oh, say a century) to be proud of?

In case you’re in need of further enlightenment…

The small fenland market town I live in has produced 80 Nobel Prize Winners in the last 100 years 😉

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> 1904 Lord Rayleigh, Trinity College Nobel Prize in Physics, for discovering Argon 1906 J. J. Thomson, Trinity College Nobel Prize in Physics, for investigating the electrical conductivity of gases  
> 1908 Ernest Rutherford, Trinity College Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for atomic structure and radioactivity  
> 1915 William Bragg, Trinity College Nobel Prize in Physics for analysing crystal structure using X-rays  
> 1915 Lawrence Bragg, Trinity College Nobel Prize in Physics, for analysing crystal structure using X-rays  
> 1917 Charles Barkla, Trinity College Nobel Prize in Physics, for discovering the characteristics of X-radiation  
> 1922 Niels Bohr, Trinity College Nobel Prize in Physics, for investigating atomic structure and radiation
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> 1996 James Mirrlees, Trinity College Nobel Prize in Economics, for studying behaviour in the absence of complete information  
> 1997 John Walker, Sidney Sussex College Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for studying how a spinning enzyme creates the molecule that powers cells in muscles  
> 1998 Amartya Sen, Trinity College Nobel Prize in Economics, for his contributions to welfare economics  
> 1998 John Pople, Trinity College Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the development of computational methods in quantum chemistry  
> 2000 Alan McDiarmid, Sidney Sussex College Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the discovery and development of conductive polymers  
> 2000 Paul Greengard Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system  
> 2001 Tim Hunt, Clare College Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle  
> 2001 Joseph Stiglitz, Caius College Nobel Prize in Economics, for analyses of markets with asymmetric information  
> 2002 John Sulston, Pembroke College Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death  
> 2002 Sydney Brenner, King’s College Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death

Not all Europeans, obviously, but they chose Europe to do their work.

I believe Oxford have 40 or so winners of their own - still trying to catch up, but not bad nevertheless.

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**Author:** ![villain71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/4bbf92/32.png) [@villain71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villain71)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-news-from-europe/311970/62 "2005-07-13T09:05:16Z")

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I’m just a guest but this paul guy…wow what a loser.

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