Paranoid dancer and opera-lover Andy GroveCame to the U.S. from Hungary in 1956; third employee of Intel and later its CEO. |
Encephalitis patient StanisBaw UlamCame to the U.S. from Poland in 1935; enjoyed thermonuclear weapons, nuclear-powered rockets, and programming the ENIAC to design more and better thermonuclear weapons. Spent winters in Florida. |
Patent Office Clerk A. EinsteinCame to the U.S. from Germany in 1933. popularized work of pioneering female physicist Mileva Mari in relativity, the photoelectric effect, mass-energy equivalence, and Brownian motion. Nobel Prize in Physics 1921. |
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. |