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[Wallenstein]

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

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.

[villain71]

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