Representative Sample of Immigrants

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

Climate Change Denier Ivar Giaever

Came to the U.S. from Norway in 1954; Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 for work on tunneling in superconducts.

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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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Flute player Jack Steinberger

Came to the U.S. from Germany in 1934; proved existence of muon-associated neutrino and married former student; Nobel Prize in Physics 1988.

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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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