Representative Sample of Immigrants

from Philip Greenspun
Four immigrants to the U.S. who were selected at random:

Austrian Army, French Foreign Legion, and British Army reject Joseph Pulitzer

Came to the U.S. from Hungary in 1864; ran some newspapers and endowed the Pulitzer Prizes.

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Rilke reader Max Delbrück

Came to the U.S. from Germany in 1937, seven years after completing his Ph.D. in physics; founder of molecular genetics; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969.

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Published Poet Roald Hoffmann

Came to the U.S. from Poland in 1949; studied electron orbitals; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981.

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Amateur skier Rudolph A. Marcus

Came to the U.S. from Canada in 1951; electron transfer theory; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992.

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