ISLAM AND JUDAISM CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORLD

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[besieged]

ARAB/ISLAMIC NOBEL WINNERS
19.6% of World's Population.....2 billion

Literature
1957 - Albert Camus
1988 - Najib Mahfooz 1988.

Peace
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat

Chemistry
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewail

Medicine
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad

JEWISH NOBEL WINNERS
0.2% OF WORLD'S POPULATION............14.1 Million Jews

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

World Peace
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

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
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1989 - Sidney Altman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
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

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
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
1995 - Edward B. Lewis

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
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
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
1995 - Martin Perl

(Population Info:
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, Ill., Britannica Book of the Year, 1999)

[RightWhale]

Particularly up in Spain, but also in Egypt. They got along quite well in many cases.

[Sally II]

When you say all religions are false, do you include politcal philosphies, too? I'd say the majority of Green Party/Progressives and environmentalists qualify as religions. They have a tendency to have faith in pretty outlandish, unproven things. They seem to gravitate toward religions like Buddhism, Hinduism and various pagan (ie earth mother worship) beliefs.

Before you go bashing all religions, you should take a look at the belief structure of some of the most destructive and oppressive political systems. For example, Communism was obviously very anti-religious. And Communism is responsible for the slaugher of millions of people, and the Russian soldiers during WWII had a reputation for being extremely brutal to civilians. I've heard first hand accounts that at the end of the war, when the Germans were defeated, many people (including whole families) committed suicide out of fear when they heard the Russian soldiers were catching up to them. Then take a look at Hitler's National Socialist party. Some people still associate the Nazis to Christianity, but the Nazis were actually heavily influenced by pagan beliefs. And there is no irony in the fact that Hitler had great respect for Islam. He recognized that Islam justified the type of brutality and dictatorship that Hitler wanted for the Nazis. My parents are Christians and lived under the Nazi government. And they would describe the atmosphere as outwardly religious, but hostile towards God. Because under the Nazi government Hitler and Germany came before God. My mother's sixth grade teacher had her whole class ridicule her and call her a Jew-lover because she defended her faith. One of her uncles was beaten up for quoting from the Bible during a funeral service. And they saw what the Nazis did to the Jews.

Anyhow, my point is: before you bash the faith of others, be very careful what you are putting your faith in. Just because a belief system does not involve God does not make it better or more evolved than religious faith.

[JesusIsLord]

What are you going to do when you are weak willed and simple minded. Yes, that day is coming!

The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.

[jpl]

The decimal system was an Indian invention, hence the term 'Hindu-Arabic' numerals. The Arabs just adopted it and brought it to the West.

Not only are you correct, but evidence for the earliest known usage of the decimal system is from the ancient Vedic texts, which date back as far as possibly 1000 BC.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I love it.

[watchin]

Your post in informative, and the information I've read inclines me to believe it, but it would stand up against criticism a little better if you'd cite the source. Thanks.

[Squawk 8888]

He was serving his nation which was at a war not of its own choosing. The Russians and the French started it.

Um, not exactly. The Austrians started it (although one could argue that the Serbs share the blame), which caused all of the alliances to kick in. This resulted in a chain reaction starting with Russia, then Germany, France and England.

[Maceman]

If the Arabic peoples are not out there winning secular awards, maybe it's because they are more interested in spiritual endeavors.

Yeah. That must be it. Spiritual endeavors. Like killing Israelis, Americans, Christians and Hindus around the world.

[Maceman]

Maybe its because they send their wives into the fields to tend the crops and their kids into the streets to beg while they sit in the local cafe drinking tea and picking their toenails.

You know, when you put it that way, it doesn't sound half bad.

[watchin]

I'm glad to see others coming forward with results to a search for the facts. What you've asserted as fact looks suspiciouly like more muslim propaganda. (Something like Algore's claim of inventing the internet.) I hope you find it to be an eye-opener and a valuable contribution to truth.

[RightWhale]

suspiciouly like more muslim propaganda

If propaganda works, it is because it is accepted as truth. In my training in physics and math I have noted the texts usually have footnotes of small biographies of the persons who originated the particular method or theory under discussion. It adds an extra dimension, a feel for what was developed before something else and in what country it was developed. Optics, as it happens, is an area where I have done some work, and Snell's Law is basic to one branch of optics. We would assume that the law is named for the person who developed it as is the custom in science. But we are always interested when we learn that someone came before. It is immaterial whether the earlier someone is of any particular religion or from any particular region, although that is of interest if we enjoy tracing the development of math and science in a historical sense. That's all it is, nothing more.

[LurkedLongEnough]

It is a spiritual endeavour. It's just that the spirit that informs them is Satan.

LOL! That's great! Except... the spirit's name has to sound more arabic: maybe the title Beelzebub would accommodate the language barrier.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Lots of algebra was invented by Muslims. The word itself is Arabic. So were the principles of navigation that allowed Europeans to conquer the world once they recovered from the dark ages. Azimuth, for instance, is Arabic.

They weren't always as they are now.

[Britton J Wingfield]

The Chinese are another great example of a once-advanced people hobbled by their own stagnant culture. They went from inventing eastern civilization to reverse-engineering trinkets and eating their own.

[captain_dave]

"...If the Arabic peoples are not out there winning secular awards, maybe it's because they are more interested in spiritual endeavors."

Spirtual Endeavors?

Like what? ... spreading Islam by the sword?

[LPStar]

As I noted in another thread where this list first appeared, at least one of the persons listed as Muslim, Elias James Corey, is an Arab Christian. My guess is that more on the list of Muslims are not actually Muslim, such as Camus and Medewar, but I'm not as sure about them as I am Corey. Let's not conflate being Arab and being Muslim.

[dennisw]

Fritz Haber invented modern nitrogen fertilizer. This is his most important scientific contribution. Before Haber ships were sent to far off islands that were laden down with guano.

 

Haber
... process also provided ammonium sulphate for use as a fertilizer for the soil. The
principle used for this ... A. Schlenk photograph of Fritz Haber at Dahlem ...
www.geocities.com/bioelectrochemistry/haber.htm - 29k - Cached - Similar pages

Haber, Fritz
... Haber, Fritz. Haber. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. ... Carl Bosch, he invented a process
for the large-scale production of ammonia for use in nitrogen fertilizer. ...
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American Scientist - Scientists' Bookshelf
... soon become safe. New fertilizer application procedures should result ... the personal
lives of Haber and Bosch are sketched ... tragic life” of Fritz Haber is moving ...
www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/bookshelf/ Leads01/feedingearth.html - 28k - Cached - Similar pages

[tictoc]

Hitler's mother's maiden name was Schicklegruber. It's possible, though inconclusive, that he had Jewish origins.

Your post is another good example of what I am complaining about.

The name was Schickelgruber (so spelled). A typical Austrian / South German name, not a Jewish one.

There is no evidence that Hitler had Jewish origins. But don't let that stop you from engaging in irresponsible rumor-mongering.