Of the six winners of Nobel Prizes affiliated with American universities so far this year, all are foreign born. Five were born in the United Kingdom, and the sixth was born in Finland -- a fact that prompted one policy wonk to tweet with tongue in cheek, "Damn immigrants taking Nobel Prizes away from Americans," adding a smiley-face emoticon. All three winners of the physics prize were born in Britain but work at U.S. universities: Brown and Princeton Universities and the University of Washington, in Seattle. The two winners of the economics prize, from the U.K. and Finland, work at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively. In chemistry, a Britain-born scientist based at Northwestern University shared the prize with two other researchers from France and the Netherlands. (See the table below for the list of winners. The prize in literature has not been awarded yet, while the honor in medicine went to a Japanese scientist affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The Nobel Peace Prize, a different beast, went to the president of Colombia.)

October 11, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed