Who is the greatest immigrant in American history?

Arrived with a suitcase and changed the country that took them in. The fields run from physics to jeans to newspapers.

1. 1
   Albert Einstein

   Left Germany in 1933, settled at Princeton, and made the US the centre of theoretical physics.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Andrew Carnegie

   Scottish weaver's son who built the American steel industry and then gave the money away.
   632pts
3. 3
   Irving Berlin

   Born in Imperial Russia, wrote 'God Bless America' and much of the Great American Songbook.
   580pts
4. 4
   Levi Strauss

   Bavarian dry-goods merchant whose riveted work trousers became the American uniform.
   523pts
5. 5
   Wernher von Braun

   German rocket engineer, brought over after the war, who built the Saturn V.
   479pts
6. 6
   Hedy Lamarr

   Austrian film star and inventor whose frequency-hopping patent underpins modern wireless.
   428pts
7. 7
   Nikola Tesla

   Arrived from Europe in 1884, naturalised in 1891, and gave America its alternating-current grid.
   371pts
8. 8
   Joseph Pulitzer

   Hungarian immigrant who reinvented the newspaper and endowed the prize that carries his name.
   371pts
9. 9
   Elizabeth Blackwell

   English-born, and the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
   306pts
10. 10
    An Wang

    Shanghai-born engineer whose Wang Laboratories put word processing on office desks.
    306pts
11. 11
    Alexander Hamilton

    Born in the Caribbean, arrived as a teenager, and designed the American financial system.
    306pts
12. 12
    Alexander Graham Bell

    Scottish-born, Canada then Boston, and the telephone patent that built AT&T.
    231pts
13. 13
    Enrico Fermi

    Fled Fascist Italy in 1938 and built the first nuclear reactor under a Chicago stadium.
    143pts
14. 14
    Madeleine Albright

    Czech-born refugee who became the first woman to serve as US Secretary of State.
    143pts
15. 15
    Sergey Brin

    Left the Soviet Union at six and co-founded Google two decades later.
    143pts
16. 16
    Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Austrian bodybuilder who became a film star and then governor of California.
    143pts