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Number of Nobel Prizes (NPs) per decade since 1896. (A) US scientists in basic sciences (medical school departments or research institutes) won more Nobel Prizes in Medicine than other US scientists between 1986 and 2015. (B) In each of the three decades from 1986 to 2005, the United States won more science Nobel Prizes (Physics, Medicine, Chemistry) than the rest of the world. This domination ended in the most recent decade, 2006–2015.
