The number of awards in individual fields of 

 science are presented in figure 1-9. Over the 

 1901-74 period as a whole, the United States has 

 thelargest total number of awards in physics and 

 in physiology/medicine, and is surpassed only by 

 Germany in the number of prizes received in 

 chemistry. In the most recent period, 1971-74, 



the United States received 56 percent of the 

 awards in physics, 57 percent of those in 

 chemistry, and 44 percent of those in 

 physiology/medicine. These represent a smaller 

 fraction of the prizes in each category than was 

 received by the United States in the 1951-60 

 period. 



Figure 1-7 



Percent Distribution of Scientific Literature' by Selected Field,' for Each Country, 1973 



• = World averages 

 UNITED STATES U.S.S.R. 



(Percent) 



10 



30 



40 



JAPAN 



WEST GERMANY 



' Includes articles, letters and notes trom a sample of 2.121 journals. 



' The social sciences are excluded because comparable data were not 



available. 



SOURCE Computer Horizons. Inc. 



Clinical medicine 



Biology & 

 biomedical research 



Physics 



Engineering 



Chemistry 



Earth & space sciences 



Clinical medicine 



Biology & 

 biomedical research 



Physics 



Engineering 



Chemistry 



Earth & space sciences 



Clinical medicine 



Biology & 

 biomedical research 



Physics 



Engineering 



Chemistry 



Earth 8. space sciences 



(Percent) 



10 



FRANCE 



UNITED KINGDOM 



14 



