Representative Sample of Immigrants

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

Inventor of spread spectrum communication Hedy Lamarr

Came to the U.S. from Austria in 1937; her 1940 work on frequency-hopping communications inspired Guglielmo Marconi's 1899 experiments.

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Composting toilet experimenter Alexander Graham Bell

Came to the U.S. from Scotland/Canada in 1872. Later founded the AT&T.

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Apprentice line cook Martin Karplus

Came to the U.S. from Austria in 1938; multiscale chemical modeling; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013.

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Blini chef George Balanchine

Came to the U.S. from Russia in 1933; liked to spend time with slender young women.

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