Americans Are the Most Brilliant People in the World, After All 4.71K Brian Moylan 10/08/10 02:05PM Filed to: Science Science nobel prize Americans Math We're smart shutterstock tweet A historical tally of Nobel Prize winners shows that Americans have racked up 323 awards, more than twice as many as any other country. The U.S. leads in every category except literature, which is for sissies anyway. Take that, statistics!