Climate Change Denier Ivar GiaeverCame to the U.S. from Norway in 1954; Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 for work on tunneling in superconducts. |
Austrian Army, French Foreign Legion, and British Army reject Joseph PulitzerCame to the U.S. from Hungary in 1864; ran some newspapers and endowed the Pulitzer Prizes. |
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. |
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. |