Posted on 10/23/2019 9:58:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
They live in different places, work at different universities and dedicate their careers to studying different topics. But there's one thing at least four of this year's US Nobel Prize laureates share.
They're immigrants.
That's in keeping with a long-running trend, according to a recent report from the National Foundation for American Policy. Immigrants have won 38% of the Nobel Prizes awarded to Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000, and 35% of the Nobel Prizes awarded to Americans in those fields since 1901, the foundation says.
This year, French-born Esther Duflo and Indian-born Abhijit Banerjee -- both professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were among three recipients of the Nobel Prize in economics. UK-born M. Stanley Whittingham, a professor at Binghamton University in New York, was one of three awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. And Canadian-born James Peebles, a professor at Princeton University, was one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.
"These achievements by immigrants point to the gains to America of welcoming talent from across the globe," the foundation's report notes. "The findings do not mean America should welcome only Nobel Prize winners. Such a policy would be quite restrictive."
In light of growing US immigration restrictions, it's unclear whether the trend will continue, the foundation's executive director said in a Forbes column detailing his organization's findings.
"Immigrants will continue to win Nobel Prizes in scientific fields," Stuart Anderson wrote. "However, they may not win them in America."
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That was by globalist design
Great. But are the illegal immigrants?
That’s LEGAL immigrants, CNN.
You folks really should learn how to read and spell.
But then, since you are in “journalism” you need neither.
How many of them were Somalis or Guatemalans?
Or Muslims?
legal immigrants that probably speak English
See?
This is why you should be happy to have your country overrun with foreigners...../s
So build no wall. Is that where cumin is headed with this?
How many Mexicans?
Hardly anyone has a problem with legal immigrants. My nephew just immigrated legally from Taiwan. Took him ten years. The difficulty of immigrating legally filters outs the riff raff.
Only sociopaths/psychopaths would refuse to acknowledge the difference between legal immigration/immigrants and illegal invasion/aliens.
Legal immigrants, yes.
They’re immigrants.
But they didn’t sneak across the border carrying a load of crack in the middle of the night.
Just doing scientific breakthroughs that Americans won’t.
But are they illegals?
“How many of them were Somalis or Guatemalans?
Or Muslims? “
I think it was a Prager University presentation that talked about Nobel prizes as broken out by religion. As I recall, the most went to Jews, followed by Christians. The number that went to Muslims was ridiculously small. As they pointed out, Islam had produced “scientists” but very little science. As for most of the third world, education is so far down on their list of concerns, the third world will probably never produce much in the way of new science.
Legal immigrants, with jobs, making contributions to America and society at large. Quite different from some MS-13 gang-banger shoving his way in and getting free whatever he wants.
ILLEGAL immigrants???
“These achievements by immigrants point to the gains to America of welcoming talent from across the globe,”
Or it points to affirmative action by the Nobel Committee. Barack Obama won a Nobel just for being a Halfrica.
So they’re probably not on welfare and don’t receive food stamps, right?
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