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Article: No belles: the second sex.(Nobel Prizes by gender)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 11, 1996
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IN an attempt to validate the claim that high genius is, with few exceptions, limited to the male sex, there is probably no better material available than the distribution of the Nobel Prize among men and women. As is well known, the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in his will, written in 1895, just about a year before his death, provided that the annual returns of his great fortune be divided into five equal parts and awarded as prizes to those who have lately made the most important contributions in the categories of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, and Peace. Since 1969, an additional prize in Economics in memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded ...