Statistics for Nobel laureates in Physics

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Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
1921	Albert Einstein	96%
1903	Marie Curie	96%
1903	Pierre Curie	96%
1901	Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen	96%
1922	Niels Bohr	92%
1903	Antoine Henri Becquerel	88%
1933	Erwin Schrödinger	88%
1933	Paul Dirac	88%
1902	Pieter Zeeman	88%
1965	Richard Feynman	88%
1915	William Henry Bragg	88%
1915	William Lawrence Bragg	88%
1975	Aage Bohr	85%
1902	Hendrik Lorentz	85%
1918	Max Planck	85%
1905	Philipp Lenard	85%
1989	Wolfgang Paul	85%
1945	Wolfgang Pauli	85%
1938	Enrico Fermi	81%
1925	Gustav Hertz	81%
1937	George Paget Thomson	77%
1910	Johannes van der Waals	77%
1906	Joseph John Thomson	77%
2017	Kip Thorne	77%
1904	Lord Rayleigh	77%
2013	Peter Higgs	77%
1932	Werner Heisenberg	77%
1949	Hideki Yukawa	73%
1911	Wilhelm Wien	73%
1908	Gabriel Lippmann	69%
1909	Guglielmo Marconi	69%
1913	Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes	69%
1956 \| 1972	John Bardeen	69%
1972	Leon Neil Cooper	69%
1963	Maria Goeppert-Mayer	69%
1954	Max Born	69%
1907	Albert Abraham Michelson	65%
1930	Chandrasekhara Raman	65%
1917	Charles Glover Barkla	65%
1957	Chen-Ning Yang	65%
1996	David Morris Lee	65%
1939	Ernest Lawrence	65%
1963	Hans Jensen	65%
1944	Isidor Isaac Rabi	65%
1919	Johannes Stark	65%
1972	John Robert Schrieffer	65%
1962	Lev Landau	65%
1929	Louis de Broglie	65%
1914	Max von Laue	65%
1943	Otto Stern	65%
1983	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	65%
1957	Tsung-Dao Lee	65%
1927	Arthur Holly Compton	62%
1927	Charles Wilson	62%
2013	François Englert	62%
1909	Karl Ferdinand Braun	62%
1982	Kenneth G. Wilson	62%
1988	Leon Max Lederman	62%
1978	Robert Woodrow Wilson	62%
1936	Carl David Anderson	58%
1950	Cecil Frank Powell	58%
1920	Charles Guillaume	58%
2018	Donna Strickland	58%
1952	Edward Mills Purcell	58%
1952	Felix Bloch	58%
2009	George E. Smith	58%
2006	George F. Smoot	58%
1958	Ilya Frank	58%
1925	James Franck	58%
2006	John C. Mather	58%
1951	John Douglas Cockcroft	58%
1928	Owen Willans Richardson	58%
1958	Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov	58%
1977	Philip Warren Anderson	58%
1996	Robert Coleman Richardson	58%
2018	Arthur Ashkin	54%
2017	Barry Barish	54%
1937	Clinton Joseph Davisson	54%
1963	Eugene Paul Wigner	54%
1970	Hannes Alfvén	54%
1967	Hans Albrecht Bethe	54%
1935	James Chadwick	54%
1965	Julian Schwinger	54%
2008	Makoto Kobayashi	54%
1969	Murray Gell-Mann	54%
2002	Raymond Davis	54%
1923	Robert Andrews Millikan	54%
1936	Victor Francis Hess	54%
2003	Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov	50%
1973	Brian David Josephson	50%
1984	Carlo Rubbia	50%
1971	Dennis Gabor	50%
1951	Ernest Walton	50%
1953	Frits Zernike	50%
2018	Gérard Mourou	50%
1998	Horst Ludwig Störmer	50%
1926	Jean Baptiste Perrin	50%
1970	Louis Néel	50%
1964	Nicolay Basov	50%
1912	Nils Gustaf Dalén	50%
1948	Patrick Blackett	50%
1991	Pierre-Gilles de Gennes	50%
2002	Riccardo Giacconi	50%
1979	Steven Weinberg	50%
2005	Theodor W. Hänsch	50%
1979	Abdus Salam	46%
2011	Adam G. Riess	46%
2011	Brian P. Schmidt	46%
1947	Edward Victor Appleton	46%
1993	Joseph Hooton Taylor	46%
1981	Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn	46%
1968	Luis Walter Alvarez	46%
1924	Manne Siegbahn	46%
1946	Percy Williams Bridgman	46%
2007	Peter Grünberg	46%
2017	Rainer Weiss	46%
1990	Richard E. Taylor	46%
1976	Samuel Ting	46%
1997	Steven Chu	46%
2008	Toshihide Maskawa	46%
2003	Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg	46%
1956	William Bradford Shockley	46%
1964	Alexander Prokhorov	42%
1978	Arno Allan Penzias	42%
1964	Charles Hard Townes	42%
1998	Daniel Chee Tsui	42%
2012	David J. Wineland	42%
2001	Eric Allin Cornell	42%
1986	Ernst Ruska	42%
1995	Frederick Reines	42%
1990	Henry Way Kendall	42%
1980	James Watson Cronin	42%
2005	John L. Hall	42%
1959	Owen Chamberlain	42%
1955	Polykarp Kusch	42%
1979	Sheldon Lee Glashow	42%
1954	Walther Bothe	42%
1955	Willis Eugene Lamb	42%
2000	Zhores Ivanovich Alferov	42%
2007	Albert Fert	38%
1997	Claude Cohen-Tannoudji	38%
1992	Georges Charpak	38%
1973	Ivar Giaever	38%
1988	Jack Steinberger	38%
1985	Klaus von Klitzing	38%
2002	Masatoshi Koshiba	38%
1977	Nevill Francis Mott	38%
1965	Shinichiro Tomonaga	38%
2009	Willard S. Boyle	38%
2008	Yoichiro Nambu	38%
2010	Andre Geim	35%
2009	Charles K. Kao	35%
1987	Karl Alexander Müller	35%
2010	Konstantin Novoselov	35%
1995	Martin Lewis Perl	35%
1978	Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa	35%
1961	Robert Hofstadter	35%
2005	Roy J. Glauber	35%
2011	Saul Perlmutter	35%
2015	Takaaki Kajita	35%
1956	Walter Houser Brattain	35%
1966	Alfred Kastler	31%
2015	Arthur B. McDonald	31%
1975	Ben Roy Mottelson	31%
1959	Emilio Gino Segre	31%
1999	Gerard 't Hooft	31%
1973	Leo Esaki	31%
1961	Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer	31%
2016	David J. Thouless	27%
1960	Donald Arthur Glaser	27%
1958	Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm	27%
1977	John Hasbrouck Van Vleck	27%
2014	Shuji Nakamura	27%
1996	Douglas D. Osheroff	23%
2014	Hiroshi Amano	23%
2014	Isamu Akasaki	23%
1998	Robert B. Laughlin	23%
1997	William Daniel Phillips	23%
2001	Wolfgang Ketterle	23%
2003	Anthony James Leggett	19%
1981	Arthur Leonard Schawlow	19%
1976	Burton Richter	19%
1990	Jerome I. Friedman	19%
1975	Leo James Rainwater	19%
1999	Martinus J. G. Veltman	19%
1988	Melvin Schwartz	19%
1981	Nicolaas Bloembergen	19%
1984	Simon van der Meer	19%
1980	Val Logsdon Fitch	19%
1974	Antony Hewish	15%
2004	David J. Gross	15%
1974	Martin Ryle	15%
2012	Serge Haroche	15%
2001	Carl Edwin Wieman	12%
2016	F. Duncan M. Haldane	12%
2004	Frank Wilczek	12%
2016	John M. Kosterlitz	12%
1994	Bertram Brockhouse	8%
1994	Clifford Glenwood Shull	8%
1986	Gerd Binnig	8%
1989	Hans Georg Dehmelt	8%
1986	Heinrich Rohrer	8%
2004	Hugh David Politzer	8%
1987	Johannes Georg Bednorz	8%
1993	Russell Alan Hulse	8%
1989	Norman Foster Ramsey	4%
1983	William Alfred Fowler	4%
2000	Herbert Kroemer	0%
2000	Jack St. Clair Kilby	0%