Climate Change Denier Ivar GiaeverCame to the U.S. from Norway in 1954; Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 for work on tunneling in superconducts. |
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. |
Flute player Jack SteinbergerCame to the U.S. from Germany in 1934; proved existence of muon-associated neutrino and married former student; Nobel Prize in Physics 1988. |
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. |