Representative Sample of Immigrants

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

Telegraph messenger boy Andrew Carnegie

Came to the U.S. from Scotland in 1848; adopted the Bessemer process for making steel and grew Carnegie Steel to more than $8 billion in 2026 dollars. Donated libraries to towns all around the U.S. and founded Carnegie-Mellon University.

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Oil company employee M. Stanley Whittingham

Came to the U.S. from the United Kingdom in 1972; developed lithium-ion battery; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019.

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Clarinet player Max Levchin

Came to the U.S. from Ukraine in 1991; co-founded PayPal and Slide. Movie producer.

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Dry goods merchant Levi Strauss

Came to the U.S. from Germany in 1847. Stole all the credit for (immigrant from Russia) Jacob W. Davis's invention of the modern riveted blue jean.

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