Typical Immigrants

Representative Sample of Immigrants

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

Ratatouille Chef Walter Kohn Came to the U.S. from Austria in 1940; enjoyed semiconductor physics; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998. (more)	Apprentice line cook Martin Karplus Came to the U.S. from Austria in 1938; multiscale chemical modeling; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013. (more)
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. (more)	Patent Office Clerk A. Einstein Came to the U.S. from Germany in 1933. popularized work of pioneering female physicist Mileva Mari in relativity, the photoelectric effect, mass-energy equivalence, and Brownian motion. Nobel Prize in Physics 1921. (more)