IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: DANIEL TSUI - NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN PHYSICS

Daniel Tsui is certainly a success story for the foreign student visa system in this country. He came from his native China in the late 50s to pursue a degree, spent some time in the private sector working at Bell Labs and then became a physics professor at Princeton. He won the Nobel Prize in 1998 for his work in subjects like the properties of semiconductors.

Comments

[voldemar]

One more Nobel Laureate - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Alexeyevich_Abrikosov

[Johnnie]

Well, let's see this immigrant of the year? Norman Hsu!!!!!!!!

Illegal contributions to Hillary, who supported amnesty for these illegals?

One of Hillary Clinton's major fundraisers turns out to also be a major felon on the run. Yesterday, connections to Norman Hsu turned up in a Wall Street Journal investigation into large donations from a family of modest means at Hsu's old address. Today, the Los Angeles Times reports that Hsu lammed it after agreeing to serve a three-year stretch for grand theft (via Hot Air):

For the last 15 years, California authorities have been trying to figure out what happened to a businessman named Norman Hsu, who pleaded no contest to grand theft, agreed to serve up to three years in prison and then seemed to vanish.
"He is a fugitive," Ronald Smetana, who handled the case for the state attorney general, said in an interview. "Do you know where he is?"

Hsu, it seems, has been hiding in plain sight, at least for the last three years. ...

On Tuesday, E. Lawrence Barcella Jr. -- a Washington lawyer who represents the Democratic fundraiser -- confirmed that Hsu was the same man who was involved in the California case. Barcella said his client did not remember pleading to a criminal charge and facing the prospect of jail time. Hsu remembers the episode as part of a settlement with creditors when he also went through bankruptcy, Barcella said.