About *half* of the Nobel prizes in physics for the last half-century
have gone to guys who were born and raised in the "pitiful" US (or born
elsewhere and raised here).

True and thats the reason why last half 0f 20th Century is called the Ice Age
of physics.
Among crowd of US Nobel laurates (technicians according to Hawking) only Murray
Gell Mann is in the same league with the all time starts of physics.

Strange, in spite of plenty of US nobel laurates we still use theories
developed by some others almost one hundred years ago.
(BTW many of US nobel laurates are the experimentalists that proved the
theories of others were correct)

There is quality and quantity issue even in Nobel prizes,US excels everywhere
when you judge only by quantity.


The Europeans had a big advantage a hundred years ago, but they seem to
have ****ed most of it away.

They are back big time again,they are going to rewrite century old laws of
physics,after they do it our technicians can continue to collect Nobel prizes
by proving that they are right.