Representative Sample of Immigrants

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

Paranoid dancer and opera-lover Andy Grove

Came to the U.S. from Hungary in 1956; third employee of Intel and later its CEO.

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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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Merchant marine sailor Saul Bellow

Came to the U.S. from Canada in 1924; Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.

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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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