Editing Hyman G. Rickover (section)

==Early life and education==
Rickover was born Chaim Gdala Rykower to Abraham and Rachel/Ruchla Lea (nee Unger) Rykower, a Polish Jewish family from [[Maków Mazowiecki]] in [[Vistula Land]]. His parents changed his name to "Hyman" which is derived from [[Chayyim]], meaning "life". He did not use his middle name Godalia (a form of ''[[Gedaliah]]''), but he substituted "George" when at the Naval Academy.<ref name="auto2">{{cite web|url=https://www.cee.org/sites/default/files/media-pdfs/Admiral_Rickover_brought_the_nuclear_age_to_the_US_Navy.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.cee.org/sites/default/files/media-pdfs/Admiral_Rickover_brought_the_nuclear_age_to_the_US_Navy.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|via=The Center for Excellence in Education|website=examiner.com|date=2015-08-02|first=Karen|last=Holt|title=Admiral Rickover brought the nuclear age to the US Navy}}</ref>

In 1906 (aged six), Rickover made passage to New York City with his mother and sister, fleeing anti-Semitic Russian [[pogrom]]s<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=piQvAQAAIAAJ&q=pogroms|title=Notable Scientists from 1900 to the Present: N–S|access-date=2014-12-12|isbn=978-0787617554|last1=Narins|first1=Brigham|date=2001|publisher=Gale }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C49YAAAAYAAJ&q=rickover+pogroms|title=Encyclopedia of American Immigration: Paper sons |quote= Born to a Jewish family in a part of Poland under Russian rule in 1900, Rickover fled with his parents to the United States in 1905 in an effort to avoid Russian-instigated pogroms.|via=Books.goole.com|isbn=978-1587656026 |year=2010 |last1=Bankston |first1=Carl Leon |publisher=Salem Press }}</ref> during the [[Revolution of 1905]]. They joined Abraham, who had made earlier trips there beginning in 1897 to become established.<ref>{{cite book|last=Duncan|first=Francis|title=Rickover : the struggle for excellence|year=2001|publisher=Naval Inst. Press|location=Annapolis, Md.|isbn=1-55750-177-7|page=4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VVwJ9hOTGMMC&pg=PA4|edition=1. print.}}</ref> Rickover's family lived initially on the [[East Side of Manhattan]] but moved two years later to [[North Lawndale, Chicago]], which was a heavily Jewish neighborhood at the time, where Rickover's father continued work as a tailor. Rickover took his first paid job at age nine, earning three cents an hour ({{Inflation|US|0.03|1909|r=2|fmt=eq}}) for holding a light as his neighbor operated a machine. Later, he delivered groceries. He graduated from grammar school at 14.<ref name="time1954">{{Cite magazine | issn = 0040-781X | title = The Man in Tempo 3 | magazine = Time | access-date = 2009-03-06 | date = 1954-01-11 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819338-2,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080423233511/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819338-2,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = April 23, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | isbn = 978-1-55750-177-6 | page = 7 | last = Duncan | first = Francis | title = Rickover: the struggle for excellence | year = 2001 | publisher = Naval Inst. Press | location = Annapolis, Md.}}</ref>

Rickover attended [[John Marshall Metropolitan High School]] in Chicago and graduated with honors in 1918. He then held a full-time job as a telegraph boy delivering [[Western Union]] telegrams, through which he became acquainted with Congressman [[Adolph J. Sabath]], a Czech Jewish immigrant. Sabath nominated Rickover for appointment to the [[United States Naval Academy]]. Rickover was only a third alternate for appointment, but he passed the entrance exam and was accepted.<ref>{{Cite book | isbn = 0-471-12296-3 | page = 21 | last = Rockwell | first = Theodore | title = The Rickover Effect | year = 1995 | publisher = John Wiley & Sons | location = Brooklyn, NY }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | isbn = 978-1-58566-068-1 | page = 23 | last = Adams | first = Chris | title = Inside the Cold War | year = 1999 | publisher = Air University Press | location = Maxwell Air Force Base, AL}}</ref>