Migration

Immigrants have a history of winning Nobel science awards

science migration nobel prize chemistry physics economics medicine immigration foreign born prize award  Scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier, director of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin holds a swedish themed puppet after winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing, in Berlin, Germany, October 7, 2020. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch - RC2ODJ94MTKH

One of this year's chemistry winners, Emmanuelle Charpentier, is a French national, working at the German Max Planck Institute in Berlin. Image: REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Katharina Buchholz
Data Journalist, Statista
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