When a dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria on Dec. 10 replaced the annual Stockholm award of the Nobel prizes (discontinued since 1939), it was found that 28 laureates now live in the U.S., counting eleven who have recently arrived, most of them to escape Hitler. Eleven attended the dinner.
Germany, claiming racial superiority, likes to point to her wide lead in the number of Nobel awards:
Germany 40½
Britain 24½
France 21½
U.S 20
Sweden 11½
Switzerland 8½
Denmark 5½
Austria 5½
Belgium 5½
Italy 5½
Netherlands 5
But on the basis of population, Germany falls far down the listas...