Birthplaces of All Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics [OC]

I got the birthplaces from wikipedia, using the wikidata query from this blogpost (but for the nobel prize in physics instead of the Field’s Medal): https://efosong.net/blog/nobel-birthplace/

That blog post also has the same thing for other awards, and you can hover over each dot and see the details. But I didn’t like that the dots didn’t combine and get bigger if they overlap (you can’t really see that so many are from the NYC area, for example), so I made my own version for just the physics laureates.

I made the map using a spaghetti code C++ program that I wrote yesterday morning. I could put that on github if someone’s interested.

Sorry the dots are so small, if I made them any bigger western Europe basically becomes one big dot representing 80+ people.

The map projection is Eckert IV (equal area).