Nobel Laureates & Fields Medal Winners

What's Here? What's The Nobel Prize?；What's The Fields Medal?

American Universities Win the Prize!

Out of the seven hundred and seventy winners of the Nobel Prize, five hundred and seventy eight were affiliated with worldwide universities at the time their Prizes were announced. Out of the almost six hundred university affiliated winners, two hundred and seventy nine are from American universities. That is almost fifty percent! Impressive statistics for an impressive education system!American Universities have housed almost half of the Nobel Laureates!Furthermore, seventy Five percent of the winners of the Fields medal, which plays the role of the Nobel Prize in mathematics, served as professors in American universities either for their whole career or at some time in their careers.

The Nobel Prize is an international award given yearly since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and for peace. In 1968, the Bank of Sweden instituted the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize.

John Charles Fields' Will established the Fields Medal, which has played the role of the Nobel Medal in Mathematics.Fields wished that the awards should recognize both existing mathematical work and also the promise of future achievement. To fit with these wishes Fields Medals may only be awarded to mathematicians under the age of 40.