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A recent Wall Street Journal article highlights the significant contributions of immigrants to U.S. scientific achievements, noting that three of the six U.S. science Nobel laureates this year are foreign-born. The article argues that the current political trend of restricting legal immigration is short-sighted, citing statistics showing immigrants comprise a substantial portion of U.S. Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, and medicine since 2000. The author emphasizes that individual contributions matter and that limiting legal immigration will negatively impact future U.S. scientific advancements and prosperity.
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Updated on: Oct 09, 2025 12:09 pm IST
Three of the six U.S. science winners this year are foreign-born.
Welcoming immigrants to the U.S. is out of fashion on the political right these days, even for those who enter the U.S. legally. That’s short-sighted for America’s future prosperity, as this week’s news about the annual Nobel prize winners in the sciences shows again.
PREMIUM Immigrants and American Nobel Prizes
Omar Yaghi, an immigrant from Jordan, shared the prize in chemistry with an Australian and a Japanese national. They won for what the Nobel committee called “the development of metal-organic frameworks.”
Mr. Yaghi, a Berkeley professor, came to the U.S. as a teenager in a refugee family and had limited knowledge of English. He studied at a community college in Troy, N.Y., earned his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, and had faculty positions at Arizona State, Michigan and UCLA before joining Cal. Only in America, as some of us still like to say.
Stuart Anderson at the National Foundation for American Policy has looked at the three science Nobels awarded since 2000, and immigrants make up 40% of the U.S. winners. As the nearby chart shows, it’s 45% for physics, 43% for chemistry and 32% for medicine.
Some of our readers will sniff that these are mere anecdotes and say the Trump White House supports legal immigration. Sorry, anecdotes matter because the contributions of individuals matter. And the restrictionists in the White House are trying to shrink even legal immigration too.
Nobel prizes in the sciences are the result of intellectual capital built over decades of hard work and research. The U.S. will get fewer in the future if the Trump Administration won’t welcome legal immigrants and refugees.
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