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Let's be realistic. The purpose of this article is to claim that great scientists were religious. To do so would at least require evidence that the listed scientists were truly devout and not only members of a congregation due to prevailing social standards in their home country at the time of their life. E.g. it was a defacto social standard in the first half of the 20th century to be a member of the Anglican church in England or a member either the Roman catholic church or the lutheran church in Germany. Mere membership does not tell you anything about how commited to religion the mentioned scientists were. In its current state this article is meaningless. P.S.: One of the citiations for Heisenberg leads directly to some questionable website for applying for loans. A great indication of the low quality standard for this article.
Yes, I agree. I have put a better sources need tag on Heisenberg ChandlerMinh (talk) 07:32, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
I removed a big chunk of the article because it was basically lifted from 100 Years of Nobel Prize (2005), a review of Nobel prizes awarded between 1901 and 2000, self-published by Baruch A. Shalev. PepperBeast (talk) 03:26, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
This page [citing Shalev] claims that 65.3% Physics laureates were Christians. But the table lists only 15. That is just 6% of total 220 awarded so far.
This page [citing Shalev] claims that 72.5% Chemistry laureates were Christians. But the table below lists only 5. That is just 2.7% of total 180 awarded so far.
This page [citing Shalev] claims that 62% Medicine/Physiology laureates were Christians. But the table below lists only 10. That is just 4.5% of the total 222 awarded so far.
This page [citing Shalev] claims that 50% Literature laureates were Christians. But the table below lists 46. Which is 39.3% of the total 117 awarded so far. In Shalev’s list literature field has lowest share of Christian laureates, but the table given on this article tell the exact opposite—literature has highest share of Christian winners.
This page [citing Shalev] claims that 54% Economics laureates were Christians. But the table below lists only 9. Which is just 10.4% of the total 86 awarded so far. ChandlerMinh (talk) 05:48, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
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User Derek-airtken recently added several people to the list of Christian Nobel laureates. I've already removed one, Hendrik Lorentz, because the source provided clearly stated that Lorentz was only nominally a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, and formally left it in 1895. All of the others are problematic. I strongly suspect that Max von Laue wasn't Catholic, as indicated. His Nobel bio speaks of his Protestant schooling, and the Royal Society obituary of his admiration for the "protestant Prussian" tradition. It also says "Though he rarely spoke of it, he was deeply religious in a personal way."
I do see some indication that Johannes Stark might have been Catholic, since he was from Bavaria and wrote a book on National Socialism and the Catholic Church, but the source provided does not confirm this. The sources provided for Philipp Lenard and for Charles Édouard Guillaume also fail to confirm the affiliation given. For Lenard it says only that he was "was an early exponent of the anti-Jewish 'German Physics' school". For Guillaume the ref. given is irrelevant, as it only indicates that Gaston Darboux was a Protestant, and that both Darboux and Guillaume were upset when the Catholic Édouard Branly was elected to the French Academy of Sciences over Marie Curie.
I think it's clear that we should only include in this list Nobel laureates who made significant public pronouncements about their religious convictions. By that standard I think that even Wilhelm Röntgen should be removed. - Eb.hoop2 (talk) 16:55, 6 February 2023 (UTC)