November 13, 2007

A Glance at the November issue of Wired: Mapping America's Achievements in Science

By Jason M. Breslow

Science education in the United States may not be in the best of shape, "but Americans still win most of the world's top science prizes," according to an examination by Melinda Wenner, a freelance science journalist in New York.

Since 1987, according to Ms. Wenner's count, researchers at 20 American institutions have received at least three of the major awards presented in science and technology— the Nobel Prize, the Lasker Award, the Fields Medal, the A.M. Turing Award for

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