Stamp collector Hans BetheCame to the U.S. from Germany in 1935; studied shock waves with Edward Teller for the Manhattan Project; Nobel Prize in Physics 1967. |
Encephalitis patient StanisBaw UlamCame to the U.S. from Poland in 1935; enjoyed thermonuclear weapons, nuclear-powered rockets, and programming the ENIAC to design more and better thermonuclear weapons. Spent winters in Florida. |
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. |
Child of child psychiatrist Igor SikorskyCame to the U.S. from Russia in 1919; designed and built the first mass-produced helicopter (R-4). |