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Chevrolet; the Guggenheim Museum; death and defiance; the bridges of New York City; the electric guitar;and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
This unlikely list carries a common thread—the thread of Swiss immigration to the United States.
Louis Chevrolet built a car empire, while Simon Guggenheim altered the way we view modern art. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross changed the way we think about dying. Othmar H. Ammann built the bridges of New York City. Adolph Rickenbacher created the electric guitar.
Ben Roethlisberger
When he was just 23 years old, in 2006, Ben Roethlisberger became the youngest quarterback in NFL history to win the Super Bow. He's also the first quarterback of Swiss descent to play in—and win—the big game.The Roethlisberger family immigrated form the Emmental village of Geissbühl in Canton Bern four generations ago.
The Bridges of New York City
A Swiss native built the bridges of New York City.
Bet you didn't know that!
Herbert Hoover
1874-1964
Herbert Hoover risked his life for others during an anti-foreigner uprising in China; he arranged the evacuation of over 100,000 stranded Americans from Europe at the outbreak of World War I; he organized food aid for the starving of Europe when the war was over.
Martin Vosseler
In 2008, Martin Vosseler set off to walk across the United States, from the West to the East.
Martin wanted to show how each of us has a choice in how we use our personal energy and the energy resources of our planet.
Thabo Sefolosha
26-year-old Thabo Sefolosha, is not your typical basketball player. He's part Swiss and part South African: born on Lake Geneva, raised in Montreux; lived in five countries, fluent in three languages, plays a mean shooting guard for the NBA.
Yul Brynner
1920-1985
Born in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, the son of a half Swiss father, who spent part of his childhood in China before moving to France, the exotic and mysterious Yul Brynner is for many people the embodiment of the King of Siam.
Louis Chevrolet
Louis Chevrolet was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the French speaking part of Switzerland, a center of the watch industry, but moved to France with his family at the age of nine. He soon left school and started work as a mechanic, first on bikes and then on cars.
