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    Citizenschallenge-v.3 replied to the topic Only 10% of the Nobel prize winners are atheist ? in the forum Religion and Secularism 5 years ago

     

     

    @ Daniel:  Link #2 answers your question pretty well”

    Can you please summarize the answer?

    This article is too complicated.

     

    Wikipedia gets the numbers from a single source:

    Shalev, Baruch Aba (2003). “Religion of Nobel prize winners”. 100 years of Nobel prizes. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. pp. 57–59. ISBN 9788126902781.
    This book is rather obscure, has only 1 review on Amazon.com for instance. Smells fishy. It has 19 citations on Google Scholar as of writing, but the numbers are quite widespread online, probably as a function of the Wikipedia page. The author seems to be a pretty unknown Israeli geneticist, but quite obscure as well. The book wasn’t even on on libgen, but a copy was obtained.

    So, we look at the relevant pages, and: …