Amateur pianist Edward TellerCame to the U.S. from Hungary in 1935. Worked on implosions for atomic bombs. Wanted to build a 50-gigaton hydrogen bomb and lobbied against nuclear test bans. Early climate change alarmist. |
Poodle lover Thomas MannCame to the U.S. from Germany in 1938; Couldn't express an idea in fewer than 900 pages; Nobel Prize in Literature 1929. |
Amateur lepidopterist Vladimir NabokovCame to the U.S. from Russia in 1940; supporter of the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon; wrote a screenplay for Peter Sellers. |
Amateur skier Rudolph A. MarcusCame to the U.S. from Canada in 1951; electron transfer theory; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992. |