Share of prizes
Quantifying Jewish contributions to human progress, innovation, and the preservation of life
Share of Jewish laureates in the world's top awards
Percentages compiled by jinfo.org from each prize's full laureate list — while Jews are roughly 0.2% of world population.
66%
Tony Award — Best Original Score58%
Tony Award — Best Musical56%
Most-cited legal scholars & law-review articles55%
Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement55%
IMU Abacus Medal (Nevanlinna Prize)54%
Tony Award — Best Book of a Musical52%
IFORS Hall of Fame (operations research)51%
Enrico Fermi Award51%
Kanellakis Award50%
Leading figures in linguistics48%
Atoms for Peace Award48%
Knuth Prize48%
John Bates Clark Medal48%
Grande Médaille, French Academy of Sciences48%
Academy Award — Best Scoring48%
Hirschfelder Prize (theoretical chemistry)47%
Nemmers Prize in Economics47%
Albany Medical Center Prize (medicine)46%
Dijkstra Prize (distributed computing)46%
Rumelhart Prize (cognitive science)46%
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction44%
Jewish chess champions & grandmasters43%
Lars Onsager Prize43%
Most-Cited Psychologists (textbooks)42%
Academy Award — Best Original Song42%
Most-Cited Psychologists (research literature)41%
Bôcher Memorial Prize41%
Wolf Prize in Medicine41%
Boltzmann Medal41%
Jewish screenwriters (Academy Award winners)41%
Academy Award — Best Original Screenplay40%
Nobel Prize in Economics40%
Birkhoff Prize (applied math)40%
Wolf Prize in Physics40%
Wolf Prize in Mathematics40%
Wolf Prize in Chemistry40%
Gödel Prize (theoretical CS)40%
Joel Hildebrand Award (chemistry)40%
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (biology)40%
100 Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20th C.39%
John von Neumann Award (social sciences)38%
Norbert Wiener Prize (applied math)38%
Dannie Heineman Prize (mathematical physics)38%
von Neumann Theory Prize38%
US National Medal of Science38%
GM Cancer & Sloan-Kettering Prizes38%
Tony Award — Best Play36%
Cole Prize (algebra & number theory)34%
Dirac Medal (ICTP)33%
Veblen Prize in Geometry33%
von Hippel Award (materials science)33%
Leading figures in anthropology32%
Linus Pauling Medal (chemistry)32%
Academy Award — Best Adapted Screenplay31%
Pulitzer Prize for Drama30%
Turing Award30%
Wolf Prize in Arts30%
APSA & Skytte awards (political science)30%
Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research30%
Welch Award in Chemistry30%
Thinkers of the Twentieth Century30%
Leading figures in sociology29%
Peter Debye Award (physical chemistry)28%
Abel Prize27%
Gairdner Foundation Award (biomedicine)26%
Nobel Prize in Medicine26%
Creators of history's greatest lifesaving advances25%
Nobel Prize in Physics25%
Foreign Members of the British Royal Society23%
Fields Medal23%
Max Planck Medal23%
Kyoto Prize22%
250 most-cited arts & humanities scholars22%
Priestley Medal (chemistry)22%
Arthur C. Cope Award (organic chemistry)19%
Nobel Prize in Chemistry16%
Wolf Prize in Agriculture16%
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry14%
Nobel Prize in Literature13%
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction8%
Nobel Peace Prize
Source: jinfo.org award lists (Turing, Fields, Nobel, Wolf, Oscar…), cross-checked against our directory. Last verified: July 2026.
Data Sources: Nobel Prize Foundation, World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control, Wolf Foundation, International Mathematical Union, Lasker Foundation, Columbia University
Updated: December 2024 • Statistics compiled from verified sources • Learn about our methodology