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Topics: Immigration, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize, Physics
Tomorrow, they'll announce the Nobel Prize in Physics. I have someone I'm always rooting for, he himself the son of immigrants to New York by a few generations at least.
I'm sure "The Donald" crowd will ignore this and its significance. The closest scientists get to anything as poorly descriptive (and political) as "race" is the more accurate continental ancestry, based on genome type and genetic markers. We are all from somewhere else.
Next Tuesday [tomorrow] the Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced at 11:45 CEST and I am making the bold prediction that the winner – or one of the winners – will be an immigrant. Why? Because this year’s Physics World Nobel-prize infographics show that of the 198 people who have won the prize, 51 are immigrants – so I reckon there is a reasonable chance that I will be right.
What do we mean by an immigrant? This is a tough question, especially in science, where people tend to move around a lot and don’t always settle in one place. For the purposes of these infographics, we have used a rather crude definition of an immigrant laureate: someone who died or currently lives in a country other than that of their birth. There is more about how we made the infographics later in this post – but first, what do they tell us?
Physics World:
New infographics show that more than one-quarter of physics Nobel laureates are immigrants
Hamish Johnston
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