Amateur tennis player Enrico FermiCame to the U.S. from Italy in 1938; led the first controlled nuclear chain reaction (Chicago Pile-1); Nobel Prize in Physics 1938. |
Avid gardener I. M. PeiCame to the U.S. from China in 1935; liked pyramids; Pritzker Prize 1983. |
Ping pong player Jensen HuangCame to the U.S. from Taiwan in 1973. Co-founded NVIDIA. In 2025, said that he would cheerfully pay whatever wealth taxes California voters decided to impose. |
Stamp collector Hans BetheCame to the U.S. from Germany in 1935; studied shock waves with Edward Teller for the Manhattan Project; Nobel Prize in Physics 1967. |