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. 2018 Sep 26;15(146):20180580. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2018.0580

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Figure 1. — International mobility of Nobel laureates. (a) Fraction of Nobel Prize winners who received their award for work done in a country different than their birth country—‘foreign-born’; 23% of Nobel Prize winners from 1901 to 2016 belong to the foreign-born category, indicated by the horizontal line. (b) Fraction by award and time period. (c) Fraction by region of achievement over 10-year intervals. (d) The Nobelist birth-discovery network: countries are represented along the arc, with arc-length proportional to the number of laureates born in a given country. Link width represents the number of individuals born in country c_b that performed award research in country c_a. The link direction is denoted by the gap, which differentiates incoming and outgoing links: e.g. the majority of the international links associated with the US terminate with a gap, indicating foreign-born. The majority of links are intra-country (e.g. 29% of all laureates have the US as their country of birth and their country of achievement), but the international links represent the nearly 1 in 4 Nobelists who migrated internationally. Data from Wolfram Alpha [35]. (Online version in colour.)