Climate Change Denier Ivar Giaever
Came to the U.S. from Norway in 1954; Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 for work on tunneling in superconducts.
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Patent Office Clerk A. Einstein
Came 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.
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Encephalitis patient StanisBaw Ulam
Came 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.
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Amateur pianist Edward Teller
Came 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.
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