Amateur sculptor Salvador LuriaCame to the U.S. from Italy in 1940; demonstrated that bacterial resistance to viruses is genetically inherited; Nobel Prize in Physiology 1969. |
Catskills fisherman Irving BerlinCame to the U.S. from Russia in 1893; conservative Republican anti-communist who violated First Amendment separation of church and state by writing 'God Bless America'. |
Amateur skier Rudolph A. MarcusCame to the U.S. from Canada in 1951; electron transfer theory; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992. |
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. |