Human Accomplishment

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by  Murray Charles

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The earth sciences inventory did not include anthropology, which was classified instead as a social science and therefore was not
among the inventories for analysis. Among the 130 anthropologists identified in any of the science sources, four were women, or 3.0
percent.
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Total number of significant figures times .022.
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Work country refers to the nation where a significant figure spent the most important part of his career.
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The numerator is Jewish significant figures per million Jewish population. The denominator is Gentile significant figures per million
Gentile population.
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Chemistry, Medicine, Physics.
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Adapted from The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray.
Copyright © 1994 by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. Reprinted with permission of The Free Press, a Division of Simon &
Schuster Trade Publishing Group. I have made a few minor changes to the original text, eliminating some material specific to issues in
The Bell Curve and rewording a few sentences to fit the context of Human Accomplishment.
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Persons classified as “other” in the scientific categories could qualify as a significant figures, with an index score, for use in analyses
where the scientific categories were aggregated.
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Some sources were used for more than one category.
Human Accomplishment
The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 . to 1950
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