Merchant marine sailor Saul BellowCame to the U.S. from Canada in 1924; Nobel Prize in Literature 1976. |
Married his first cousin Igor StravinskyCame to the U.S. from Russia in 1939; failed Hollywood composer. |
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. |
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. |