In an estimate by Baruch Shalev, between 1901 and 2000 about 65.4% of Nobel Prize winners were either Christians or had a Christian background.[1] Here is a non exhaustive list of some of the prize winners who publicly identified themselves as Christians.
By one estimate made by Weijia Zhang from Arizona State University and Robert G. Fuller from University of Nebraska–Lincoln, between 1901 and 1990, 60% of Nobel Prize in Physics winners had Christian backgrounds.[2] In an estimate by Baruch Shalev, between 1901 and 2000, about 65.3% of Physics Nobel prize winners were either Christians or had a Christian background.[1]
In an estimate by Baruch Shalev, between 1901 and 2000, about 72.5% of Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners were either Christians or had a Christian background.[1]
In an estimate by Baruch Shalev, between 1901 and 2000, about 62% of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winners were either Christians or had a Christian background.[1]
In an estimate by Baruch Shalev, between 1901 and 2000, about 49.5% of Nobel Prize in Literature winners were either Christians or had a Christian background.[1]
In an estimate by Baruch Shalev, between 1901 and 2000, about 78.3% of Nobel Peace Prize winners were either Christians or had a Christian background.[1]
In an estimate by Baruch Shalev, between 1901 and 2000, about 54.0% of Nobel Prize in Economics winners were either Christians or had a Christian background.[1]
Figures as eminent as Lord Kelvin, James Clark Maxwell, and Lord Rayleigh retained strong religious beliefs [...] Both Lord Rayleigh and J. J. Thomson were Anglicans.
Joseph John Thomson, whose discovery of the electron in 1897 marked an important step toward the new physics [...] was also a devout Anglican and an opponent of ritualism.
In order to marry Cristina [Bezzi-Scali], Marconi not only had his previous marriage annulled, he also formally affirmed his faith in Catholicism, taking confirmation at a ceremony performed at the Bezzi-Scali palace. (He had been baptized a Catholic at birth, even if he was raised Protestant.)
Heisenberg grew up in a Protestant family. He attended Evangelical religious instruction, was confirmed, and was married in the Church. He has written about his religious beliefs in his book, The Part and the Whole.
Walton's approach to life was guided by the fundamental principles of his methodist faith as handed on by his parents, and he lectured widely on the relationship between science and religion.
My conclusion at that time was that truth, as we understand it in science, and truth in religion, are not the same thing. Since then, I have often attended services in Anglican churches or my college chapel, and now living in retirement in a Bedfordshire village, Aspley Guise, my wife and I are fairly regular churchgoers.
I'm a fairly orthodox Protestant. I've been in a lot of Protestant churches [...] Recently my son and I both joined the Methodist Church in Paradise, California, and that's the only one I go to now.
Translated from German: Oh, yes, I believe in God. (...) I am a Christian and I try to live as a Christian (...) I read the Bible very often and I try to understand it.
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