Paranoid dancer and opera-lover Andy GroveCame to the U.S. from Hungary in 1956; third employee of Intel and later its CEO. |
Heavy drinker John von NeumannCame to the U.S. from Hungary in 1930; liked to play games and had fun with explosives and computers. |
Confirmed bachelor Theodore von KármánCame to the U.S. from Hungary in 1930; without approval from the United Nations, drew an arbitrary line 62 miles above our fragile Planet Earth; founded Aerojet, now headquartered in Palm Bay, Florida as Aerojet Rocketdyne. |
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. |