How many Muslim Nobel prize 'science' laureates are there?

BRY2K

Here is one: Ahmed Zewail winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1999). He was awarded the Prize for for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy. One should also recognize Abdus Salam who won the The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979. I found this article to be a helpful resource as well: http://bznotes.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/muslim-nobel-prize-winners/ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1979/salam-bio.html http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1999/ Jul 21 08, 6:15 AM

zbeckabee

Shirin Ebadi is the first Iranian, the first Shia and the first Muslim woman to receive the prize (Peace/2003). Additionally: Chemistry -- Ahmed H. Zewail , 1999 Literature -- Naguib Mahfouz , 1988 Peace -- Anwar El-Sadat , 1978 Yasser Arafat , 1994 Mohamed ElBaradei , 2005 Physics -- Abdus Salam ---, 1979 http://www.informationdelight.info/encyclopedia/entry/Central_Business_District/TV-PG/List_of_Muslim_Nobel_Prize_winners http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirin_Ebadi Jul 21 08, 10:05 AM