| year | winner | country | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | Marie Curie | Poland | 82%
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| 1945 | Alexander Fleming | Scotland | 79%
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| 1962 | James Watson | United States | 79%
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| 1933 | Erwin Schrödinger | Austria | 77%
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| 1904 | Ivan Pavlov | Russia | 77%
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| 1906 | JJ Thomson | United Kingdom | 77%
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| 1948 | TS Eliot | United States | 77%
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| 1918 | Max Planck | Germany | 74%
|
| 1961 | Dag Hammarskjöld | Sweden | 74%
|
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell | Wales | 74%
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| 1957 | Albert Camus | France | 72%
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| 1973 | Lê Đức Thọ | Vietnam | 72%
|
| 1923 | WB Yeats | Ireland | 69%
|
| 1922 | Niels Bohr | Denmark | 67%
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| 1962 | Francis Crick | United Kingdom | 67%
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| 1981 | James Tobin | United States | 56%
|
| 1954 | Linus Pauling | United States | 54%
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| 1978 | Menachem Begin | Israel | 51%
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| 1908 | Ernest Rutherford | New Zealand | 51%
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| 1979 | Mother Teresa | Macedonia | 49%
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| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa | 49%
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| 1974 | Friedrich Hayek | Austria | 46%
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| 2001 | Joseph Stiglitz | United States | 46%
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| 1952 | Albert Schweitzer | France | 38%
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| 1969 | Odd Hassel | Norway | 38%
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| 1966 | Rolf Zinkernagel | Switzerland | 38%
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| 1933 | Paul Dirac | United Kingdom | 38%
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| 1939 | Leopold Ružička | Croatia | 31%
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| 1998 | Amartya Sen | Bangladesh | 26%
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| 2010 | Christopher Pissarides | Cyprus | 18%
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