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Evolution of National Nobel Prize Shares in the 20th Century (by Juergen Schmidhuber)
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Evolution of National Literature Nobel Prize Shares by Citizenship since 1901 (by Juergen Schmidhuber)

Figure 7: Literature Nobel Prizes 1901-2009: Evolution of cumulative national shares by citizenship at the time of the award. The vertical width of a nation's colored band at each year measures its percentage of all Literature Prizes up to that year (image height = 100%). France took the lead in 1901; Germany caught up in 1902, Norway in 1903, then France alone led until 2009, except for about three decades, 1908-1937, when Germany was ahead. From Evolution of National Nobel Prize Shares in the 20th Century, Jürgen Schmidhuber, 2010. PDF. HTML.
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