Sturat Anderson: Immigrants Keep Winning Nobel Prizes

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As Nobel Prizes are being awarded, immigrants “have kept doing what they have done for years —winning Nobel Prizes,” Stuart Anderson of the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) writes for Forbes. Per new NFAP research, immigrants “have been awarded 38%, or 40 of 104, of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000,” and three of the four U.S. winners of the Nobel Prize this year in physics, chemistry and medicine are immigrants. “The rise in immigrant Nobel Prize winners reflects an overall increase in the reputation and capability of American institutions and researchers post-1960, and a greater openness to immigration has helped make the United States the leading global destination for research in many different science and technology fields,” the study concludes. 

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