Number of Nobel prizes (in the sciences) won by "the Muslim world" equals zero Reader comment on item: Mecca Mean Time? in response to reader comment: No science in mecca choice
Submitted by Bill Bennetta(United States), Apr 29, 2008 at 09:02
On 27 April, Phil Greend wrote:
" Very very few Nobel prizes [in the sciences] have been earned by the muslim world."
We can be more accurate by citing the actual number of Nobel prizes won by representatives of the Islamic world: The number is zero.
See my article at http://www.textbookleague.org/122ali.htm .
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