[Comrade Ogilvy]

Richard Feynman must be yet another exception "proving" this case.

[fastspawn]

there are 271 supposed nobel lauretes. if less than 50 names don't roll of one's tongue, it just proves a point.

[Fernando]

Spain has not been very prolific but we have something:

- Ramón y Cajal (Nobel prize) descovered the neuron. Before that it was thought the brain was a kind of net, with cells phisycally united.

- Severo Ochoa (Noberl Prize) descovered (in collaboration) the RNA. He was naturalized in the US. So he is one of your 271.

- Miguel Servet. In 16th century he descovered the 'minor blood circulation' (the circulation of the blood fron the heart to lungs). He was burnt by Calvin in Geneve.

Though we performed good achievements in the Middle Ages in both Christian and Muslims kingdoms I think you would conider them old-fashioned.