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A Summing Up - Achievements of Jews
| TABLE 1 | ||||||
| Distinction | Relevant Geography | Total Recipients |
Projected Jewish Recipients | Actual Jewish Recipients | Jews as a Multiple of Projected |
Jews as a Percent of all Recipients |
| The Greats of History | ||||||
| Hart's Most Influential 100 in History | World1 | 100 | 0.2 | 8 | 35 | 8% |
| A&E's Millennium 100 | World | 100 | 0.2 | 8 | 35 | 8% |
| Time Magazine's 100 of the 20th Century | U.S2 | 67 | 1.4 | 13 | 9 | 19% |
| Intelliquest's World's Greatest 100 | World | 100 | 0.2 | 8 | 35 | 8% |
| Science | ||||||
| Nobel Prize in Physics | World | 181 | 0.4 | 48 | 116 | 27% |
| Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine | World | 189 | 0.4 | 59 | 136 | 31% |
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry | World | 151 | 0.3 | 30 | 87 | 20% |
| Total Nobels for Science | World | 521 | 1.2 | 137 | 115 | 26% |
| Fields Medal (for mathematics) | World | 48 | 0.1 | 12 | 109 | 25% |
| A. M. Turning Award (for computer science) | World | 54 | 0.1 | 13 | 105 | 24% |
| Invention | ||||||
| Encyclopedia Britannica's Great Inventors | World | 267 | 0.6 | 13.7 | 22 | 5% |
| Education | ||||||
| Enrollment in Ivy League Schools | U.S | 115,000 | 2,380 | 24,000 | 10 | 21% |
| Military and Aviation | ||||||
| United States Astronauts | U.S. | 268 | 5.5 | 9 | 2 | 3% |
| Economics | ||||||
| Nobel Prize for Economics | World | 61 | 0.1 | 22 | 157 | 36% |
| John Bates Clark Medal in Economics | U.S | 30 | 0.6 | 20 | 32 | 67% |
| Federal Reserve Chairmen | U.S | 14 | 0.3 | 4 | 14 | 29% |
| Politics and Law | ||||||
| United States Senators (108th Congress) | U.S. | 100 | 2.1 | 11 | 5 | 11% |
| United States Congressmen & Women (108th Congress) | U.S. | 435 | 9.0 | 26 | 3 | 6% |
| Largest Political Donors (Mother Jones List) | U.S. | 100 | 2.1 | 42 | 20 | 42% |
| United States Supreme Court Justices | U.S. | 110 | 2.3 | 7 | 3 | 6% |
| Nobel Prize for Peace | World | 95 | 0.2 | 9 | 41 | 9% |
| Sports and Games | ||||||
| NFL Hall of Fame Inductees | U.S | 247 | 5.1 | 6 | 1 | 2% |
| NFL Team Owners (excludes "community owned" Green Bay) | U.S | 31 | 0.6 | 9 | 14 | 29% |
| MLB Professional Baseball Team Owners (individually owned) | U.S | 26 | 0.5 | 5.5 | 10 | 21% |
| NBA Top 10 Coaches of All Time | U.S | 10 | 0.2 | 2 | 10 | 20% |
| NBA Basketball Team Owners | U.S | 30 | 0.6 | 12 | 19 | 40% |
| Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Inductees | U.S. | 285 | 5.9 | 20 | 3 | 7% |
| Olympics Medalists 1896 to date | see 5 below |
16,167 | 66.9 | 231.7 | 3 | 1% |
| World Chess Champions - Years as Champion | see 5 below |
122 years | 0.5 | 66 years | 131 | 54% |
| The Written Word | ||||||
| Nobel Prize for Literature | World | 104 | 0.2 | 13 | 55 | 13% |
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | U.S | 82 | 1.7 | 11 | 6 | 13% |
| Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | U.S | 89 | 1.8 | 17 | 9 | 19% |
| Pulitzer Prize for Non Fiction | U.S | 50 | 1.0 | 25.5 | 25 | 51% |
| Pulitzer Prize for Drama | U.S. | 77 | 1.6 | 22 | 14 | 29% |
| Performing Arts and Comedy | ||||||
| Kennedy Center Honorees | U.S. | 157 | 3.2 | 41 | 13 | 26% |
| Conductors of Major American Symphony Orchestras | U.S. | 202 | 4.2 | 66 | 16 | 33% |
| Composers of "World's 50 Greatest" CD Collection | see 3 below |
50 | 0.6 | 6 | 10 | 12% |
| Longest Running Broadway Musicals | U.S. | 38 | 0.8 | 24 | 31 | 63% |
| Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees | U.S. | 238 | 4.9 | 29 | 6 | 12% |
| Jazz Grammy Awards | U.S. | 216 | 4.5 | 22 | 5 | 10% |
| Grammy Lifetime Achievment Award Winners (Individuals) | U.S. | 125 | 2.6 | 18 | 7 | 14% |
| Rate It All Ranking of Stand Up Comedians | U.S. | 82 | 1.7 | 25 | 15 | 30% |
| Visual Arts and Architecture | ||||||
| Phaidon's 500 Artists | see 3 below |
500 | 6.3 | 37 | 6 | 7% |
| Combined Lists (7) of Great Photographers | see 4 below |
587 | 7.4 | 153 | 21 | 26% |
| Combined Lists (6) of Master Architects | World | 309 | 0.7 | 32 | 45 | 10% |
| Hollywood | ||||||
| Academy Award Winning Directors | U.S. | 83 | 1.7 | 31 | 18 | 37% |
| Greatest Movie Directors - Reel.com | U.S | 55 | 1.1 | 15 | 13 | 27% |
| Greatest Movie Directors - Filmsite.org | U.S | 75 | 1.6 | 27 | 17 | 36% |
| Star Power 500 Top Actors & Actresses | U.S | 500 | 10.3 | 75 | 7 | 15% |
| American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Awards | U.S. | 35 | 0.7 | 8 | 11 | 23% |
| American Film Institute Greatest American Screen Legends | U.S. | 50 | 1.0 | 6 | 6 | 12% |
| Radio and Television | ||||||
| Radio Hall of Fame Inductees | U.S. | 108 | 2.2 | 19 | 8 | 18% |
| Television Hall of Fame Inductees | U.S. | 108 | 2.2 | 39 | 17 | 36% |
| High Tech Entrepreneurs and CEOs | ||||||
| Entreprenuers (Fortunes Richest 40 Under 40) | U.S | 27 | 0.6 | 6 | 11 | 22% |
| Forbes' 400 (November 2007) | U.S | 400 | 8.3 | 125 | 15 | 31% |
| Fortune 500 CEOs | ||||||
| CEOs of Major 1917 U.S. Corporations (see note 5 below) | U.S. | 153 | 4.7 | 7 | 1 | 5% |
| CEOs of Major 1997 U.S. Corporations | U.S. | 72 | 1.5 | 16 | 11 | 22% |
| Fortune 100 CEOs | U.S. | 100 | 2.1 | 15 | 7 | 15% |
| Fortune's 25 Most Powerful People in Business | U.S | 25 | 0.5 | 6 | 12 | 24% |
| Finance | ||||||
| Private Equity Hall of Fame | U.S. | 26 | 0.5 | 8 | 15 | 24% |
| Real Estate | ||||||
| Forbes "25 Real Estate Fortunes Among Forbes 400" | U.S. | 25 | 0.5 | 18 | 35 | 72% |
| Social Activists | ||||||
| Ladies Home Journal's "100 Most Important Women" | U.S. | 100 | 2.1 | 20 | 10 | 20% |
| Philanthropy | ||||||
| Business Week's 50 Leading Philanthropists | U.S | 50 | 1.0 | 19 | 19 | 38% |
| All Nobels | ||||||
| Total - All Nobel Prizes | World | 781 | 1.8 | 181 | 101 | 23% |
| 1) As of 2002, there were an estimated 14.3 million Jews in a world of 6,23 billion people. Jews were 2/10ths of 1 percent of the World's population. | ||||||
| 2) As of 2002, the United States population was 280,562,489. Of that number, an estimated 5,807,000 were Jews (2.07 percent.) | ||||||
| 3) U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Israel. | ||||||
| 4) Western Hemisphere, Europe, Australia and New Zealand Jews were .0126% of their combined population. | ||||||
| 5) Jewish percent of the world population has changed over the 112 years of the Olympics. For this exhibit, the current percent (.00207) was doubled to approximate the average. | ||||||
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