Nobel prizes aside, the USA led scientific developments for much of the 20th century, most of the scientific advances, such as nuclear reactors (invented by an Italian immigrant, invented it in the US using materials and supplies from the US with other US scientists), rockets that can take a 20 metric ton load beyond GTO (geostationary transfer orbit, aka take stuff out of Earth's orbital influence, Werner Von Braun became a naturalized US citizen when he designed the Saturn V's), internet protocol and the first nation to have internet and public internet access, Linus Pauling and numerous others leading scientific discoveries in their fields. The pic related should should actually show the US having 4 more new elements jointly discovered with Russia, so the US should have 21 and Russia 10 elements discovered, putting the US only behind the UK in discovering new elements, and the UK hasn't contributed much to this field in the last 50 years compared with the US and Russia. There are literally too many things to list, just look through this basic wiki article on the subject, other great nations of discover are Russia and the UK and France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_discoveriesWe get our strength from being the melting pot of the world, getting ideas and scientists from all over the world coming to live here.
