 Many other American Jews who served in the military later achieved prominence in business, politics, science, entertainment and other fields.Foreign Jews have also been significant in the development of military science and technology – including physicists Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, and Edward Teller, who were important in the Manhattan Project, which led to the development of the first nuclear weapons.Though the history of Jews in this pre-independence conflict is poorly documented, the 19th-century historian Simon Wolf documented one Jew from New York who became captain of a company of bateau men, and two others who served in an expedition across the Allegheny Mountains.