Foreign minds, fenceless imagination: the 2013 Vilcek Foundation Prizes.

摘要

Every year, the White House announces the winners of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Awarded during a special ceremony by the president, these medals represent the highest honors bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers. In his address during the White House awards ceremony in the fall of 2011, President Obama noted that nine of the 12 honorees were born outside of the U.S. (1). The winners came to the U.S., he said, because "America is the best place in the world to do the work they do."