Circus trapeze artist Alexander KartveliCame to the U.S. from Georgia in 1927; chief designer of the P-47 Thunderbolt (15,683 produced), F-84, and F-105 ('Thud'). |
Rilke reader Max DelbrückCame to the U.S. from Germany in 1937, seven years after completing his Ph.D. in physics; founder of molecular genetics; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969. |
Amateur tennis player Enrico FermiCame to the U.S. from Italy in 1938; led the first controlled nuclear chain reaction (Chicago Pile-1); Nobel Prize in Physics 1938. |
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'. |