Representative Sample of Immigrants

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

Merchant marine sailor Saul Bellow

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

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Married his first cousin Igor Stravinsky

Came to the U.S. from Russia in 1939; failed Hollywood composer.

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Ping pong player Jensen Huang

Came to the U.S. from Taiwan in 1973. Co-founded NVIDIA. In 2025, said that he would cheerfully pay whatever wealth taxes California voters decided to impose.

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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.

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