"We came to the U.S. when I was 11. Even as my parents could not work making full use of their training and talents, the country gave their child, me (and my sister, born here), a chance to get an education and to do wonderful research with talented coworkers from all over the world. If the Trump policies are carried through, the full flow of what I experienced will be very unlikely in the generation of my scientific grandchildren."
"Hoffmann was born in Poland in 1937 and bears the surname of his stepfather. His father, Hillel Safran, was a Polish Jew murdered by the Nazis in 1943 for organizing a rebellion in the concentration camp where he was imprisoned. Most of his family also perished in the Holocaust. In 1949, after several years living in refugee camps in Austria and Germany, Hoffmann, his mother and stepfather managed to emigrate to the United States."
Most Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine from the United States contacted about Trump-era policies largely did not respond. Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry (1981), recounts emigrating to the U.S. at age 11 after years in refugee camps and surviving family losses in the Holocaust. Hoffmann describes how the country enabled his education and research career, and warns that proposed policy changes and funding cuts to major universities would impede similar opportunities for future immigrant scientists and undermine years of support for minorities, research, democracy, civility, and lawful conduct.
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