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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 05 July 2012 04:22:51AM *  10 points [-]

What is your source for per capita rates?

France has 4x Fields medalists per capita as the US. (and the UK is the geometric mean). (or try wikipedia) For science Nobels, the UK beats the US, which beats France.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 05 July 2012 04:27:06AM 3 points [-]

Someone a while ago told me this I think and I must have not bothered checking it. Yeah, this is unambiguously wrong as of right now. It is possible that this was true until some point quite a few years ago, but is clearly false today. Thanks for catching me on that.