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. |
Soccer enthusiast Mikhail BaryshnikovCame to the U.S. from the Soviet Union in 1974; liked to spend time with slender young women. |
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 skier Rudolph A. MarcusCame to the U.S. from Canada in 1951; electron transfer theory; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992. |