> Only 268 prizes have been awarded in physics, chemistry and
> medicine altogether. While I can't think of anyone else, I do find it hard
> to believe there is only one confirmed Christian among these. If that is
> the case -- or even if there are only a few -- that would indeed indicate
> that Christians are not well represented, yet we are not talking about only
> one in thousands.
Arthur Compton in physics & T.S. Eliot & A. Solzhenitsyn
in literature should also be included (with no claim to completeness).
George Murphy
> Finally, another angle to explore is whether Christians are well
> represented in the sciences on the whole. If there are issues concerning
> how Christians view vocations in the sciences, these have importance to us
> far beyond the Nobel Prize as one marker of achievement.
>
> Paul
>
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