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Originally Posted by thomasmorus
Sorry this ist just not right: Overall there are 399 Nobel prize winners in the EU verus 309 in the US ( mayby not 100% correct as some are doule counted) (see list in wikipaedia) Also if you compare individual countries you find 102 in Germany , 113 in the UK which gives them a much higer average per acapita then the US
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You are responding to a different issue than that which I intended to address. I wasn't counting and comparing numbers of Nobel prize winners on either side of the Atlantic. Rather, I was attempting to point out that in the US people in the listed categories are also considered "important" and (sort of) celebrities (albeit a different kind than the scandal-rag sort). Not a comparison with Europe, but a response to an earlier assertion that Americans care only about jocks and entertainers.
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