6 of 7 Americans to win the Nobel this year are immigrants
All six US-based Nobel winners in 2016 in Science and Economics are immigrants. Physics winners Duncan Haldane, Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless are UK-born, Chemistry laureate Sir J Fraser Stoddart is Scotland-born and the Economics prize was shared by UK-born Oliver Hart and Finland-born Bengt Holmström. This was the first instance since 1999 that no American-born scientist claimed a Nobel.