Top Five Countries with Maximum Nobel Prize | Award Winners

Today I found something interesting in wiki.According to its "Noble Laureates by Country" the top 5 countries with the maximum Nobel Prize Winners(also includes people born in the country and worked in the country) areas follows:

* The Nobel prize has been awarded 829 times, whereof 23 awards are affiliated with organizations.

1. United States:  320

2. United Kingdom: 116

3. Germany: 103

4. France: 57

5. Sweden: 28

All other countries are more or less below 25 winners.

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Nobel Prize winners in Physiology and Medicine : Year 2008

Physiology and Medicine


Harald zur Hausen (born March 11, 1936) is a German virologist and professor emeritus. He has done research on cancer of the cervix, where he discovered the role of papilloma viruses, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008.

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (born 30 July 1947) is a French virologist and director of the Unité de Régulation des Infections Rétrovirales at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. Born in Paris, France, Barré-Sinoussi performed some of the fundamental work in the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS. In 2008, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with her boss Luc Montagnier, for their discovery of HIV.

Luc Antoine Montagnier (born 18 August 1932 in Chabris, Indre) is a French virologist and joint recipient with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).


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