Here I list 24 Nobel Laureates of either Italian descent or who were born in Italy. Of these, 5 are of Jewish descent (those with a * next to the award year). Of the nine American winners, five were immigrants. We see here that many of America's great scientific advances can be traced to immigrant and Jewish roots.

Italy has a very old Jewish community of less than 50,000 souls. Despite that small number, four of the 15 Nobel winners born in Italy proper were Jews. That translates to 800 Laureates per 10 million population - the highest in the world. For comparison, consider this table of the top Nobel-winning countries and their respective rate of Nobels per (10 million) capita:



Country/Group Nobel Laureates Population 2015 Laureates/10 mil Jews of Italy 4 50,000 800.00 Jews Worldwide 186 16,000,000 116.25 United States 353 321,773,631 10.97 United Kingdom 125 64,715,810 19.32 Germany 105 80,688,545 13.01 France 61 64,395,345 9.47 Sweden 30 9,779,426 30.68 Switzerland 25 8,298,663 30.13 Japan 24 126,573,481 1.89 Canada 23 35,939,927 6.40 Russia 23 143,456,918 1.60 Muslims Worldwide 5 1,500,000,000 00.033

Last year a possible Muslim won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry making it number 5 for Muslim winners of a Nobel Prize in the sciences and literature. It must be so nice for Muslims to finally be able to say that they have beaten the Jews at something; that is, there are more Muslim Nobel Laureates in total than Jewish Laureates born in Italy. Good job, Muslims!