Immigrants Win Half of U.S. Nobels

The article reports that 50% of this year’s U.S.-affiliated Nobel Prize winners in the sciences are immigrants. This underscores how much elite scientific output relies on foreign-born researchers and the pipeline that brings them to U.S. labs. — It provides a simple, vivid benchmark for immigration’s contribution to national scientific prestige that policymakers and voters can use in debates over visa rules and research support.