American Nobel laureates

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#	Topic	Description	Page Views
1.	Barack Obama	American politician, 44th President of the United States	218,405
2.	Martin Luther King	Political activist	75,284
3.	Ernest Hemingway	American writer and journalist	23,747
4.	Al Gore	45th Vice President of the United States	12,576
5.	Henry Kissinger	United States Secretaries of State, National Security Advisor	9,358
6.	John Steinbeck	American writer, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate in 1962	5,924
7.	Jimmy Carter	President of the United States	5,190
8.	T.S. Eliot	Poet, dramatist, literary critic	3,950
9.	William Faulkner	Novelist, short story writer	3,378
10.	Theodore Roosevelt	26th President of the United States	2,491
11.	Woodrow Wilson	28th President of the United States	1,338
12.	Kary Mullis	American, Chemist	1,122
13.	Eugene O'Neill	American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature	1,012
14.	Sinclair Lewis	Novelist, short story writer, playwright	499
15.	Pearl S. Buck	Novelist, writer, missionary, activist	472
16.	Toni Morrison	American novelist	326
17.	Elie Wiesel	American-Jewish political activist, professor, and novelist	240
18.	Richard Feynman	American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and science educator	225
19.	Gerty Cori	American, Biologist	140
20.	Milton Friedman	American economist, public intellectual, nobel laureate	139
21.	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	American, Biologist	121
22.	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	Physicist	119
23.	Robert Burns Woodward	Organic chemist and discoverer of Woodward-Hoffmann rules	112
24.	Charles K. Kao	American, Educator	100
25.	Barbara McClintock	Children's author and illustrator	67
26.	Joseph Brodsky	poet, essayist	51
27.	Frank B. Kellogg	American politician	46
28.	Jody Williams	American teacher and aid worker	46
29.	Richard F. Heck		43
30.	Ahmed Zewail	Egyptian chemist	43
31.	Saul Bellow	Novelist, short story writer, critic, professor	42
32.	Yoichiro Nambu	American, Scientist	42
33.	Selman Waksman	American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics.	40
34.	Edmund Phelps	American economist	39
35.	George Marshall	Politician and United States Army general	36
36.	Donald A. Glaser	American, Biologist	36
37.	Alfred Hershey	American, Scientist	35
38.	Arthur Kornberg	American, Biologist	35
39.	Jane Addams	American activist and pacifist	32
40.	Frank Sherwood Rowland	American chemist	32
41.	John Bennett Fenn	American, Scientist	32
42.	Thomas J. Sargent	American, Educator	32
43.	Leon M. Lederman	American, Scientist	32
44.	Kenneth G. Wilson	American physicist	30
45.	Carol W. Greider	American molecular biologist	30
46.	Brian P. Schmidt	American-Australian astrophysicist and Nobel laureate	28
47.	Christian B. Anfinsen	Nobel laureate, for demonstrating that the information determining the 3D structure of protein molecules is contained in the amino-acid sequence	28
48.	Ben Roy Mottelson	American, Scientist	27
49.	Jack Kilby	American physicist	27
50.	Linus Pauling	American biochemist and theoretical chemist, anti-nuclear testing campaigner, Nobel laureate	26
51.	Robert Fogel	American, Historian	24
52.	Mario Capecchi	Genetics, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007.	24
53.	William Shockley	Physicist, inventor	24
54.	Robert C. Merton	American economist	24
55.	John Forbes Nash, Jr.	Mathematician	23
56.	Luis Walter Alvarez	American physicist	23
57.	Cordell Hull	American politician	23
58.	Chen Ning Yang	Nobel Prize-winning physicist	23
59.	Arthur Leonard Schawlow	American physicist	22
60.	Karl Barry Sharpless	American chemist	22
61.	Roy J. Glauber	American physicist	22
62.	Kenneth Arrow	Economist	22
63.	Carl David Anderson	American scientist	21
64.	Joshua Lederberg	American molecular biologist	21
65.	Robert Bruce Merrifield	American, Biologist	21
66.	Charles Hard Townes	American Physicist	21
67.	Severo Ochoa	American, Biologist	21
68.	Franco Modigliani	Economist	21
69.	Bruce Beutler	American, Scientist	20
70.	Anthony James Leggett	British-American physicist	20
71.	Isaac Bashevis Singer	Yiddish author	20
72.	Daniel Carleton Gajdusek	Nobel Prize-winning medical researcher	20
73.	Melvin Calvin	American chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry	20
74.	Isidor Isaac Rabi	US physicist	19
75.	Arno Allan Penzias	American physicist	19
76.	Elihu Root	American politician	19
77.	James Heckman	American economist	18
78.	Linda B. Buck	American, Biologist	18
79.	Clifford Shull	American physicist	18
80.	Leonid Hurwicz	American economist, mathematician and Nobel laureate	18
81.	Andrew Schally	American, Scientist	18
82.	Eric Maskin	American economist	18
83.	Ralph M. Steinman	American immunologist and cell biologist; Nobel laureate	18
84.	Eugene Wigner	Mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning physicist	18
85.	John Pople	Chemist	17
86.	Gertrude B. Elion	American biochemist	17
87.	Adam Riess	American Nobel laureate	16
88.	Christopher A. Sims	American time-series statistician and econometrician, developer of vector auto-regressive models, Bayesian statistician, President of the Econometric Society, 2011 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics (with Thomas J. Sargent)	16
89.	Willard Libby	American, Scientist	16
90.	Alfred G. Gilman	American, Scientist	16
91.	George Stigler	American economist	15
92.	Paul Flory	American chemist	15
93.	Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.	American astronomer	15
94.	Fritz Albert Lipmann	American, Biologist	15
95.	Douglas D. Osheroff	American, Scientist	15
96.	Edward C. Prescott	American economist	15
97.	Allan McLeod Cormack	American, Inventor	15
98.	Hans Bethe	Physicist	15
99.	Simon Kuznets	Economist	14
100.	Harry Markowitz	American economist	14