This is not meant as a form of collective bragging or a comparison of which culture is more advanced.

What I think this demonstrates is what is important to each group or where, and on what each culture chooses to focus their efforts and their passions. For Jews, this is clearly demonstrated below. For Arabs / Muslims, the list suggests that the advancement of man is not one they share with the Jews.

From a pool of 1.4 BILLION Muslims which are 20% of the world’s population (2 out of every 10 people) 

Literature 
1988 - Najib Mahfooz 
Peace 
1978 - Anwar El-Sadat 
1994 - Yasser Arafat * 
2003 - Shirin Ebadi 
Chemistry 
1999 - Ahmed Zewail 
Physics 
Abdus Salam 

* NOTE: Norwegian, Kaare Kristiansen, was a member of the Nobel Committee. He resigned in 1994 to protest the awarding of a Nobel “Peace Prize” to Yasser Arafat, whom he correctly labeled a “terrorist.” 
From a pool of 12 million Jews which are 0.2% of the World’s Population (2 out of every 1,000 people) 

Literature 
1910 - Paul Heyse 
1927 - Henri Bergson 
1958 - Boris Pasternak 
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon 
1966 - Nelly Sachs 
1976 - Saul Bellow 
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 
1981 - Elias Canetti 
1987 - Joseph Brodsky 
1991 - Nadine Gordimer 
2002 - Imre Kertesz 
World Peace 
1911 - Alfred Fried 
1911 - Tobias Asser 
1968 - Rene Cassin 
1973 - Henry Kissinger 
1978 - Menachem Begin 
1986 - Elie Wiesel 
1994 - Shimon Peres 
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin 
1995 - Joseph Rotblat 
Chemistry 
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer 
1906 - Henri Moissan 
1910 - Otto Wallach 
1915 - Richard Willstaetter 
1918 - Fritz Haber 
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 
1961 - Melvin Calvin 
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 
1972 - William Howard Stein 
1972 - C.B. Anfinsen 
1977 - Ilya Prigogine 
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown 
1980 - Paul Berg 
1980 - Walter Gilbert 
1981 - Ronald Hoffmann 
1982 - Aaron Klug 
1985 - Herbert A. Hauptman 
1985 - Jerome Karle 
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach 
1988 - Robert Huber 
1989 - Sidney Altman 
1992 - Rudolph Marcus 
1998 - Walter Kohn 
2000 - Alan J. Heeger 
2004 - Irwin Rose 
2004 - Avram Hershko 
2004 - Aaron Ciechanover 
Economics 
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson 
1971 - Simon Kuznets 
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow 
1973 - Wassily Leontief 
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 
1976 - Milton Friedman 
1978 - Herbert A. Simon 
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein 
1985 - Franco Modigliani 
1987 - Robert M. Solow 
1990 - Harry Markowitz 
1990 - Merton Miller 
1992 - Gary Becker 
1993 - Rober Fogel 
1994 - John Harsanyi 
1994 - Reinhard Selten 
1997 - Robert Merton 
1997 - Myron Scholes 
2001 - George Akerlof 
2001 - Joseph Stiglitz 
2002 - Daniel Kahneman 
2005 - Robert (Israel) Aumann 
Medicine 
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff 
1908 - Paul Erlich 
1914 - Robert Barany 
1922 - Otto Meyerhof 
1930 - Karl Landsteiner 
1931 - Otto Warburg 
1936 - Otto Loewi 
1944 - Joseph Erlanger 
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser 
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain 
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller 
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein 
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman 
1953 - Hans Krebs 
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann 
1958 - Joshua Lederberg 
1959 - Arthur Kornberg 
1964 - Konrad Bloch 
1965 - Francois Jacob 
1965 - Andre Lwoff 
1967 - George Wald 
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg 
1969 - Salvador Luria 
1970 - Julius Axelrod 
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz 
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman 
1975 - David Baltimore 
1975 - Howard Martin Temin 
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg 
1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 
1977 - Andrew V. Schally 
1978 - Daniel Nathans 
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf 
1984 - Cesar Milstein 
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown 
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] 
1988 - Gertrude Elion 
1989 - Harold Varmus 
1991 - Erwin Neher 
1991 - Bert Sakmann 
1993 - Richard J. Roberts 
1993 - Phillip Sharp 
1994 - Alfred Gilman 
1994 - Martin Rodbell 
1995 - Edward B. Lewis 
1997 - Stanley B. Prusiner 
1998 - Robert F. Furchgott 
2000 - Eric R. Kandel 
2002 - Sydney Brenner 
2002 - Robert H. Horvitz 
Physics 
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson 
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 
1921 - Albert Einstein 
1922 - Niels Bohr 
1925 - James Franck 
1925 - Gustav Hertz 
1943 - Gustav Stern 
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi 
1945 - Wolfgang Pauli 
1952 - Felix Bloch 
1954 - Max Born 
1958 - Igor Tamm 
1958 - Il’ja Mikhailovich 
1958 - Igor Yevgenyevich 
1959 - Emilio Segre 
1960 - Donald A. Glaser 
1961 - Robert Hofstadter 
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau 
1963 - Eugene P. Wigner 
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman 
1965 - Julian Schwinger 
1967 - Hans Albrecht Bethe 
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 
1971 - Dennis Gabor 
1972 - Leon N. Cooper 
1973 - Brian David Josephson 
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 
1976 - Burton Richter 
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias 
1978 - Peter L Kapitza 
1979 - Stephen Weinberg 
1979 - Sheldon Glashow 
1988 - Leon Lederman 
1988 - Melvin Schwartz 
1988 - Jack Steinberger 
1990 - Jerome Friedman 
1992 - Georges Charpak 
1995 - Martin Perl 
1995 - Frederick Reines 
1996 - David M. Lee 
1996 - Douglas D. Osheroff 
1997 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji 
2000 - Zhores I. Alferov 
2003 - Vitaly Ginsburg 
2003 - Alexei Abrikosov 
After reviewing this list, can you supply a reason for the large discrepancy between the Arab/Islamic population’s contribution to the world body and that of the Jew? There are 165 Jews listed as opposed to 6 from the Arab side.