I think all Wikipedia Nobel Prize lists must be augmented by this crucial  information This will also put in perspective the recent inflation of Nobel laureates in the sciences which is easy to explain most of the recent laureates had to share the prize while most of the early laureates got a full prize  The lists of laureates by university or by country must take this into account as well For example Glauber US Hall US and Hnsch Germany shared the physics prize of  But we cannot simply add  points to the US count and  to the German count Instead we have to add  to the US count and  to the German count Hnsch and Hall each got only  of the prize Glauber got  Otherwise wed violate the Nobel Prize conservation law  The sum of the Nobel Prizes per year is constant you may divide it among many laureates but then the laureates necessarily become less outstanding on average