Immigrants Have Won 40% of Nobel Prizes Awarded to Americans Since 2000

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Boundless reports that

“Immigrants have won 40%, or 45 of 112, of the Nobel Prizes awarded to Americans since 2000, according to a new analysis from  the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP). . . . That percentage has remained relatively unchanged since the Nobel Prize was established. `Between 1901 and 2023, immigrants have been awarded 36%, or 115 of 319, of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics.’”

Several U.S. immigrants who were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2023, including Hungarian-born Katalin Karikó, who shared the Nobel Prize with American physician-scientist Drew Weissman in physiology or medicine

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