The UK is the number one destination for international students who have gone on to become Nobel Prize winners, a study by the British Council shows.
Research revealed today shows that in the whole history of the awards, 38% of those who studied overseas chose the UK as their destination, more than any other country.
This week will see the winners announced for the 2015 awards.
Nobel by numbers
860 individual Nobel Prize winners (since 1901)
131 international student winners
50 UK international student winners
91 UK Nobel Prize winners
Set up in 1901, the Nobel Awards are internationally recognised as the ultimate honour for people who make outstanding contributions in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine or Physiology, Literature, Peace and Economics.
Since then, 131 of the 860 individual 'Nobel Laureates' (winners) have been international students – students who studied in a different country from the one they were born in for some or all of their higher education. Out of those 131, 50 studied in the UK.
This means the UK has the largest share of international student graduates on the Nobel Prize list. Next highest was the USA, where 28% international student winners studied, and 18% who studied in Germany.
The most common Nobel Prize for UK international student alumni was Medicine or Physiology, with 17 winners. Eight UK alumni won prizes for Physics, eight for Chemistry, seven for Economics, five for Literature and five for Peace.
Randy Schekman, an American student who spent his third year at the University of Edinburgh, was the most recent former UK international student to win the award. He was given the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work in cell biology.
There have also been 91 British winners of the prize since 1901.
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