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First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics (the most successful countries in 1993 -2001) Country P A R C I % Yugoslavia 19 9 8 1 0 69. 7 Singapore 11 4 4 2 0 59. 1 Czechlands 15 2 9 2 0 46. 7 USA 34 8 10 3 3 43. 4 Israel 20 1 12 3 0 38. 8 Latvia 20 2 8 1 0 31. 3 Croatia 20 1 5 3 3 26. 3 Poland 41 4 10 3 2 25. 4 Russia 55 4 14 7 1 23. 8 Belarus 26 0 3 4 23. 4 126 11 19 13 6 20. 4 Ukraine Indonesia 10 1 8 0 2 0 15. 0 P - number of Papers received A - number of papers Awarded R - number of papers that got Honorable Mention in category Research Papers C - as above but in category Contributed I - as above but in category Instruments and Devices % - The efficiency of participation expressed in percents as: (A+R/2+C/4+I/3)/P*100 %, where P, A, R, C and I are taken for the last ten years.