The UK and Japan have scored second and third, respectively, in a global league table of 21st century Nobel Prize winners released by the Times Higher Education weekly magazine, The Japan Times reported on 6 August.
The index examines the nationalities at birth of 146 laureates, who have received awards since 2000, in the fields of economic sciences, physiology/medicine, physics and chemistry.
In first place was the US, the top field of which was economic sciences. The UK and Japan’s strongest categories were physiology/medicine and physics, respectively.