他国の追従を許さない科学技術力の国アメリカ。学歴社会を支える日本の教育と科学に寄与するアメリカの教育の違いが如実に現れている。もし仮にノーベル賞が日本のものだとしたら、その受賞者は東大出身に占められるだろう。「世界が一流と認める」賞を与える国はやはり日本ではありえない。
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Bush Meets With 6 U.S. Nobel Recipients (Nov17,2003 AP)
WASHINGTON - Six U.S. citizens who received a Nobel Prize this year in chemistry, physics, medicine and economics were recognized by President Bush (news - web sites) on Monday during a visit to the Oval Office. The six Americans who met with Bush after receiving the awards last month from the Royal Academy of Sciences were: _Peter Agre of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and Roderick MacKinnon, with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The Rockefeller University in New York, for studies of tiny transportation tunnels in cell walls, work that illuminates diseases of the heart, kidneys and nervous system. _Alexei A. Abrikosov, a Russian and American citizen based at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois; and Anthony J. Leggett, a British and American citizen based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who received the physics prize. _Paul C. Lauterbur at the University of Illinois was a co-winner of the medicine prize. _Robert F. Engle, who shared the Nobel in economics with Clive W.J. Granger. The two were colleagues for decades at the University of California at San Diego.
Since the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901, 277 of the 661 winners — or 42 percent — have been Americans.
