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. |
Columbia University dropout Yo-Yo MaCame to the U.S. from France in 1962. Played cello for President John F. Kennedy at age 7. |
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. |
Published Poet Roald HoffmannCame to the U.S. from Poland in 1949; studied electron orbitals; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981. |