No belles: the second sex.(Nobel Prizes by gender)

From: National Review | Date: November 11, 1996| Author: Wranglen, Gosta | Copyright information

Geniuses are male, with few exceptions. One can determine this by looking at the number of Nobel Prize winners. Only 19 women out of 563 Nobel laureates from 1901 to 1995 are women, representing 3.4% of the total.

IN an attempt to validate the claim that high genius is, with few exceptions, limited to the male sex, there is probably no better material available than the distribution of the Nobel Prize among men and women. As is well known, the Swedish inventor and industrialist Al...

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