Talk:List of Jewish Nobel laureates

Why are Roger Penrose, Ilya Metchnikoff, and Adolf von Baeyer on this list?
Myself being ethnically at least 3/4 Jewish, I have always felt skeptical about this kind of arithmetic.

Both von Baeyer and Metchnikoff would be puzzled to see their names mentioned here. Von Baeyer was a son of a German lieutenant general, and hardly cared much about the Jewish roots of his Lutheran mother. Metchnikoff was born into the family of an officer of the Imperial Guard, baptised Russian Orthodox, raised as a normal Russian noble and, just like von Baeyer, had little time for the Jewish origins of his mother.

It is even more surprising to see on this list the name of Sir Roger Penrose. Well, yes, one of his grandmothers was of Jewish origin. Is that sufficient to count him in?

Why is Richard Feynman on this list?
Feynman's Wikipedia page contains a reference to Feynman specifically declining to provide information for a book on Jewish Nobel laureates being compiled by Tina Levitan. He was an avowed atheist, uninterested in Jewish sociology, and found the concept of linking Jewish-ness to academic worth or professional achievement as opening "the door to all kinds of nonsense on racial theory". While he was certainly born into a Jewish family, given his public stated atheism and a particular instruction to not be included on any lists of Jewish Nobel laureates, it seems actively perverse to include him.

This article needs serious editing. 214.9.101.8 (talk) 02:03, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Baeyer just deleted. --Dioskorides (talk) 10:13, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Remove comparative section
"Jews comprise only 0.2% of the world's population, meaning their share of winners is 110 times their proportion of the world's population."

I don't think this "evaluation" belongs in a factual article. 2601:600:8F81:E080:B125:E819:2B45:7F68 (talk) 00:40, 3 March 2024 (UTC)


 * You haven't provided a reason to remove this statement, which has approx. 17 sources. Scare quotes are not persuasive. Grayfell (talk) 01:30, 3 March 2024 (UTC)