There is no doubt that USA laps up the talent from all over the world. US leads the tally of Nobel prize winners which were introduced in 1901 and Economics prize introduced in 1968. Since then 585 Nobel prizes have been awarded to 922 winners out of which only 49 are women.
Youngest and oldest
Youngest person to receive the Nobel is Malala Yousafzai who received it at the age of 17 years in 2014. Although she belongs to Pakistan, her country may hardly be happy over her winning it. Oldest Nobel laureate is Leonid Hurwicz of US who received the Nobel in 2004 for economics at the age of 90 years.
Countries at the top of list.
USA:
357 total
Chemistry: 73
Economics: 55
Literature: 12
Peace: 22
Physics: 94
Medicine: 101
U.K.
115 total
Chemistry: 29
Economics: 10
Literature: 9
Peace: 9
Physics: 26
Medicine: 32
Germany
82 total
Chemistry: 29
Economics: 8
Literature: 1
Peace: 4
Physics: 23
Medicine: 17
France
57 total
Chemistry: 8
Economics: 2
Literature: 15
Peace: 8
Physics: 13
Medicine: 11
Sweden
33 total
Chemistry: 5
Economics: 2
Literature: 9
Peace: 5
Physics: 4
Medicine: 8
Major areas of research leading to Nobel
In physics is particle physics and in chemistry is biochemistry. Research in genetics most hot topic and in economics it is micro economics.
Nobel winners of Indian origin
Ronald Ross: Medicine 1902
Rabindranath Tagore: Literature 1913
C.V.Raman: Physics in 1930
Hargobind Khurana: Medicine in 1968
Mother Teresa: Peace in 1979
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar: Physics in 1983
Amartya Sen: Economics in 1998
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan: Chemistry in 2009
Kailash Satyarthi: Peace in 2014
Free Thoughts by Ranjit Singh 