Globally, Jews have earned the following shares of individual Nobel prizes: Economics: 41% (more than 205 times their share of the population) Medicine: 28% (more than 140 times their share of the population) Physics: 26% (more than 130 times their share of the population) Chemistry: 19% (more than 95 times their share of the population) Literature: 13% (more than 65 times their share of the population).