Eric Kandel is another example of someone who entered this country as a refugee and contributed in a massive way to the country that gave his family safe haven. Kandel was born in Austria in 1929 to a middle class Jewish family and emigrated to the US after the country was taken over by the Nazis. He adapted quickly to the US and went on to receive his undergraduate degree at Harvard and his medical degree at New York University. He has devoted his life to the study of the physiology of memory and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research in to the mechanisms of the mind.
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Though I personally don't care for any of them. I thought I would supply the links anyway:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
Posted by: USC | December 09, 2007 at 01:48 PM