Representative Sample of Immigrants

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

Amateur sculptor Salvador Luria

Came to the U.S. from Italy in 1940; demonstrated that bacterial resistance to viruses is genetically inherited; Nobel Prize in Physiology 1969.

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Catskills fisherman Irving Berlin

Came to the U.S. from Russia in 1893; conservative Republican anti-communist who violated First Amendment separation of church and state by writing 'God Bless America'.

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Amateur skier Rudolph A. Marcus

Came to the U.S. from Canada in 1951; electron transfer theory; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992.

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Austrian Army, French Foreign Legion, and British Army reject Joseph Pulitzer

Came to the U.S. from Hungary in 1864; ran some newspapers and endowed the Pulitzer Prizes.

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