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Pride of the USA: Nobel Prizes are increasingly being won by immigrants

Immigrants continue to receive Nobel Prizes, reports Forbes.

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In 2021, immigrants continued to do what they have been doing for years - winning Nobel Prizes. Three of the four American 2021 Nobel laureates in physics, medicine and chemistry were immigrants to the United States.

New research shows that immigrants have played a prominent role in America's scientific advancements.

“Immigrants have been awarded 38%, or 40 of the 104, Nobel Prizes won by Americans in the fields of chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000,” says a new analysis from the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP). “Between 1901 and 2021, immigrants have been awarded 35%, or 109 of the 311, Nobel Prizes won by Americans in the fields of chemistry, medicine and physics.”

The three immigrants to the United States who won this year's Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry and medicine arrived here by different routes. One came for work, another was an international student, and the third fled violence in the Middle East.

In 1958, after receiving his doctorate, Shukuro Manabe from the University of Tokyo came to America to work as a research meteorologist at the US Weather Bureau "to use physics to model weather systems." He entered the faculty of Princeton University in 1968 and is today the senior meteorologist at the school.

Shukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics "for physically modeling the Earth's climate, quantifying variability, and reliably predicting global warming."

David W.K. MacMillan was born in Scotland and came to America as an international student. He received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine. Today MacMillan is a professor of chemistry at Princeton. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List, director of the Institute for Coal Research in Germany. Max Planck.

“The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan for developing a new tool for making molecules, work that spurred advances in pharmaceutical research and reduced the impact of chemistry on the environment, reports the New York Times. “Their work, unseen by consumers, is integral to many leading industries and is critical to research.”

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Dr. Ardem Pataputyan, an immigrant from Lebanon, has made a more difficult journey to America than his fellow foreign-born Nobel laureates.

Dr. Pataputyan, professor at the Dorris Center for Neuroscience at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine with David Julius (born in the US) for “groundbreaking research that solved the long-standing mystery of how the body perceives touch and other mechanical stimuli. "

Dr. Pataputyan, an Armenian by birth, grew up in Lebanon during the country's long and disastrous civil war before fled to the United States with his brother in 1986 at the age of 18, according to the New York Times. Pataputyan, in need of permanent residency in California to afford college, worked a multi-disciplinary job for a year delivering pizza and writing weekly horoscopes for an Armenian newspaper. At the University of California, Los Angeles, preparing to enter medical school, he joined a research lab to get the professor to write him a good recommendation.

Dr. Pataputyan once described how he traveled to Los Angeles after being “captured and detained by armed militants” in Lebanon: “I had three children's shelters that I remember fondly: my sports club, where I played basketball and table tennis, our trips to the Mediterranean Sea and the wooded mountains surrounding Beirut, and the beautiful campus of the American University of Beirut, where I took undergraduate classes for one year as a pre-med specialization. However, the conflict continued to escalate, and on one fateful and terrifying morning, I was captured and held by armed militants. After a few months, I moved to Los Angeles. "

The first year in Los Angeles was a different kind of struggle for adaptation for him, the same difficult year as in his childhood in Beirut.

“Suffice it to say that the main event was writing horoscopes for a local Armenian newspaper. What a relief it was to enroll at UCLA and resume student life,” the doctor recalled.

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Ardem Pataputyan is an example of how immigration can open up new opportunities, allowing people to reach their full potential.

In an interview with the New York Times, the doctor said: “I fell in love with basic research. This changed the trajectory of my career. In Lebanon, I didn't even think about working as a scientist as a serious career. "

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Other NFAP findings include:

  • Proper immigration law matters, especially in determining whether the United States will benefit from increasing globalization and the world's educational achievement. The Immigration and Citizenship Act of 1965 abolished discriminatory quotas based on national origin and opened the door for Asian immigrants, while the Immigration Act of 1990 increased the number of employment-based green cards. These two pieces of legislation have been instrumental in attracting international students to the country and in enhancing America's ability to assimilate talented people into our culture and economy.
  • The rise in the number of immigrant Nobel laureates reflects the general growth in the reputation and capabilities of American institutions and researchers since 1960, and a greater openness to immigration has helped the United States make the United States a leading global destination for research in many different fields of science and technology, technology, including computing. and information science, cancer research and others.
  • The growing influence and importance of immigrants in science in America is reflected in Nobel Prize winners. Between 1901 and 1959, immigrants won 21 Nobel Prizes in chemistry, medicine and physics, but between 1960 and 2021 they have won 88 prizes in these fields—more than four times as many.
  • The total Nobel Prizes for immigrants (and the United States) prior to 1960 would have been lower were it not for the many Jewish scholars who overcame significant restrictions on immigration in the 1930s and fled to the United States to escape European fascism.
  • Since 2000, immigrants have won 44% of the US Nobel Prizes in physics, 37% in chemistry, and 33% in medicine.

Americans should be proud to live in a country where people come of their own accord. When immigrants achieve their dreams, their successes also become our successes.

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