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Statistics for 196 laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physics

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YearCountry of birthLaureate% Correct
1921GermanyAlbert Einstein
93%
1903Russian Empire (now Poland)Marie Curie
87%
1903FrancePierre Curie
87%
1975DenmarkAage N. Bohr
77%
1922DenmarkNiels Bohr
77%
1918Schleswig (now Germany)Max Planck
61%
1932GermanyWerner Heisenberg
60%
1933AustriaErwin Schrödinger
57%
1938ItalyEnrico Fermi
56%
1965USARichard P. Feynman
50%
1989GermanyWolfgang Paul
48%
1901Prussia (now Germany)Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
41%
1945AustriaWolfgang Pauli
41%
1933United KingdomPaul A.M. Dirac
40%
2013United KingdomPeter Higgs
39%
1954Germany (now Poland)Max Born
33%
1902the NetherlandsHendrik A. Lorentz
32%
1903FranceHenri Becquerel
30%
1937United KingdomGeorge Paget Thomson
29%
1906United KingdomJ.J. Thomson
29%
1909ItalyGuglielmo Marconi
28%
2009USAGeorge E. Smith
25%
1915AustraliaLawrence Bragg
25%
1915United KingdomWilliam Bragg
25%
1927USAArthur H. Compton
22%
1925GermanyGustav Hertz
22%
1935United KingdomJames Chadwick
22%
1902the NetherlandsPieter Zeeman
22%
1923USARobert A. Millikan
22%
1907Prussia (now Poland)Albert A. Michelson
21%
1957ChinaChen Ning Yang
21%
1962Russian Empire (now Azerbaijan)Lev Landau
21%
1929FranceLouis de Broglie
21%
1936USACarl D. Anderson
20%
1927ScotlandC.T.R. Wilson
20%
1982USAKenneth G. Wilson
20%
1977USAPhilip W. Anderson
20%
1978USARobert Woodrow Wilson
20%
1996USADavid M. Lee
19%
1967Germany (now France)Hans Bethe
19%
1949JapanHideki Yukawa
19%
1956 | 1972USAJohn Bardeen
19%
1930IndiaSir Venkata Raman
19%
1983India (now Pakistan)Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
19%
1957ChinaTsung-Dao Lee
19%
1939USAErnest Lawrence
18%
1909Hesse-Kassel (now Germany)Ferdinand Braun
18%
1965USAJulian Schwinger
18%
1904United KingdomLord Rayleigh
18%
1969USAMurray Gell-Mann
18%
1979India (now Pakistan)Abdus Salam
17%
1972USALeon N. Cooper
17%
1913the NetherlandsHeike Kamerlingh Onnes
16%
1910the NetherlandsJohannes Diderik van der Waals
16%
1919GermanyJohannes Stark
16%
1905Hungary (now Slovakia)Philipp Lenard
16%
1965JapanSin-Itiro Tomonaga
16%
1979USASteven Weinberg
16%
1911Prussia (now Russia)Wilhelm Wien
16%
2013BelgiumFrançois Englert
15%
1914GermanyMax von Laue
15%
1958RussiaIl´ja M. Frank
14%
1944Austria-Hungary (now Poland)Isidor Isaac Rabi
14%
1925GermanyJames Franck
14%
1956United KingdomWilliam B. Shockley
14%
2011USABrian P. Schmidt
13%
1984ItalyCarlo Rubbia
13%
1908LuxembourgGabriel Lippmann
13%
1999the NetherlandsGerardus 't Hooft
13%
1981SwedenKai M. Siegbahn
13%
1924SwedenManne Siegbahn
13%
1963Germany (now Poland)Maria Goeppert Mayer
13%
1943Germany (now Poland)Otto Stern
13%
1928United KingdomOwen Willans Richardson
13%
2002USARaymond Davis Jr.
13%
1996USARobert C. Richardson
13%
1979USASheldon Glashow
13%
2010RussiaAndre Geim
12%
1978GermanyArno Penzias
12%
1973United KingdomBrian D. Josephson
12%
1920SwitzerlandCharles Edouard Guillaume
12%
1917United KingdomCharles Glover Barkla
12%
1959ItalyEmilio Segrè
12%
1951IrelandErnest T.S. Walton
12%
1963Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)Eugene Wigner
12%
1952SwitzerlandFelix Bloch
12%
2006USAGeorge F. Smoot
12%
1912SwedenGustaf Dalén
12%
1970SwedenHannes Alfvén
12%
1926FranceJean Baptiste Perrin
12%
1951United KingdomJohn Cockcroft
12%
1993USAJoseph H. Taylor Jr.
12%
1987SwitzerlandK. Alex Müller
12%
2008JapanMakoto Kobayashi
12%
1948United KingdomPatrick M.S. Blackett
12%
1958RussiaPavel A. Cherenkov
12%
1990CanadaRichard E. Taylor
12%
1961USARobert Hofstadter
12%
1977United KingdomSir Nevill F. Mott
12%
1997USASteven Chu
12%
2008JapanToshihide Maskawa
12%
1936AustriaVictor F. Hess
12%
1955USAWillis E. Lamb
12%
2008JapanYoichiro Nambu
12%
1974United KingdomAntony Hewish
11%
1950United KingdomCecil Powell
11%
1937USAClinton Davisson
11%
2012USADavid J. Wineland
11%
2005USAJohn L. Hall
11%
1985German-occupied Poland (now Poland)Klaus von Klitzing
11%
2010RussiaKonstantin Novoselov
11%
1968USALuis Alvarez
11%
1995USAMartin L. Perl
11%
1974United KingdomMartin Ryle
11%
1959USAOwen Chamberlain
11%
1972USARobert Schrieffer
11%
1961GermanyRudolf Mössbauer
11%
1956ChinaWalter H. Brattain
11%
1954GermanyWalther Bothe
11%
2003USSR (now Russia)Alexei A. Abrikosov
10%
1975USABen R. Mottelson
10%
1976USABurton Richter
10%
2009ChinaCharles K. Kao
10%
1971HungaryDennis Gabor
10%
1960USADonald A. Glaser
10%
1947United KingdomEdward V. Appleton
10%
1952USAE. M. Purcell
10%
2004USAFrank Wilczek
10%
1953the NetherlandsFrits Zernike
10%
1992PolandGeorges Charpak
10%
1958RussiaIgor Y. Tamm
10%
1973NorwayIvar Giaever
10%
1990USAJerome I. Friedman
10%
1963GermanyJ. Hans D. Jensen
10%
1973JapanLeo Esaki
10%
1970FranceLouis Néel
10%
1999the NetherlandsMartinus J.G. Veltman
10%
1946USAPercy W. Bridgman
10%
1976USASamuel C.C. Ting
10%
2011USASaul Perlmutter
10%
1984the NetherlandsSimon van der Meer
10%
2001West Germany (now Germany)Wolfgang Ketterle
10%
2007FranceAlbert Fert
9%
1964AustraliaAleksandr M. Prokhorov
9%
1994CanadaBertram N. Brockhouse
9%
1964USACharles H. Townes
9%
1997AlgeriaClaude Cohen-Tannoudji
9%
2004USADavid J. Gross
9%
1996USADouglas D. Osheroff
9%
1986GermanyErnst Ruska
9%
2004USAH. David Politzer
9%
1998West Germany (now Germany)Horst L. Störmer
9%
1980USAJames Cronin
9%
1987West Germany (now Germany)J. Georg Bednorz
9%
1977USAJohn H. van Vleck
9%
1988USALeon M. Lederman
9%
2002JapanMasatoshi Koshiba
9%
1988USAMelvin Schwartz
9%
1981the NetherlandsNicolaas Bloembergen
9%
1964USSR (now Russia)Nicolay G. Basov
9%
2007Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)Peter Grünberg
9%
1991FrancePierre-Gilles de Gennes
9%
1955GermanyPolykarp Kusch
9%
1978Russian Empire (now Russia)Pyotr Kapitsa
9%
2002ItalyRiccardo Giacconi
9%
2012MoroccoSerge Haroche
9%
1983USAWilliam A. Fowler
9%
2000USSR (now Belarus)Zhores I. Alferov
9%
2011USAAdam G. Riess
8%
1966Germany (now France)Alfred Kastler
8%
1981USAArthur L. Schawlow
8%
2001USACarl E. Wieman
8%
1998ChinaDaniel C. Tsui
8%
2001USAEric A. Cornell
8%
1995USAFrederick Reines
8%
1986West Germany (now Germany)Gerd Binnig
8%
1989GermanyHans G. Dehmelt
8%
2000GermanyHerbert Kroemer
8%
1988GermanyJack Steinberger
8%
1975USAJames Rainwater
8%
2006USAJohn C. Mather
8%
1998USARobert B. Laughlin
8%
2005USARoy J. Glauber
8%
1993USARussell A. Hulse
8%
1980USAVal Fitch
8%
2003RussiaVitaly L. Ginzburg
8%
2009CanadaWillard S. Boyle
8%
1997USAWilliam D. Phillips
8%
2003United KingdomAnthony J. Leggett
7%
1994USAClifford G. Shull
7%
1986SwitzerlandHeinrich Rohrer
7%
1990USAHenry W. Kendall
7%
2000USAJack S. Kilby
7%
1989USANorman F. Ramsey
7%
2005GermanyTheodor W. Hänsch
7%

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