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Enrico Fermi was born in Rome Italy in 1901. He discovered physics at age 14. He became outstanding scientists who immigrated to the U.S. By 1920 he was teaching his teachers at the University of Pisa in the 1930s, to escape anti-Semitic persecution in Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy, case of his Jewish wife Laura. He co-invented and designed the first man-made nuclear reactor, starting it up in a historic secret experiment at the University of Chicago on Dec.2. Before he moved here he won a Nobel Piece Prize for being an outstanding scientist and assisting in the creation of the hydrogen bomb. He had argued against U.S. development of the hydrogen bomb when that project was debated in 1949, calling it "a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide. Fermi died prematurely of stomach cancer in Chicago in 1954.

Henry Fords parents lived in Ireland during the potato famine and moved to Detroit in the 1840s.

Ford was born in Dearborn Michigan. He worked for the Detroit Edison company, working on machines and a apprentice to chief engineer. In 1893 In 1899 Ford left Edison to help run the Detroit Automobile Company. Ford quit Detroit Automobile Company and began to build his own racing cars. Ford become the leading auto manufacturer in the country.

In addition to inventing the assembly line, the auto industry increased the pay and decreased the hours of his employees. Ensuring he could get enough and the best workers. Henry Ford became interested in politics and as a successful and business leader. After the war he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate.