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America's Nobel success is the story of immigrants

  • Written by Adil Najam, Dean, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
imageWhat does the Nobel mean for America?Amelia Gapin, CC BY-NC-ND

If it were not for Bob Dylan – the singer, songwriter and now Nobel laureate – 2016 would have become the first year since 1999 without a Nobel winner born in the United States.

Since World War II, the U.S. has dominated the four research Nobels (in medicine, chemistry,...

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