Nazi Brain Drain to US
The cluster focuses on how Nazi persecution and expulsion of Jewish scientists and mathematicians from Europe, especially Germany and Hungary, caused a brain drain that boosted US scientific advancements like the atomic bomb and Manhattan Project.
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> A lot of this had to do with the rise of Nazism which led to a lot of these high powered intellectuals fleeing Germany and Eastern Europe for the US.The Nazis managed to drive out a large portion of Europe's best scientists & mathematicians (Von Neumann, Einstein, Gödel [eventually... it took him a while to realize how bad things were] just to name a few). Most of which ended up in the US or the UK. Which in turn meant that in WWII Nazi Germany was at something of a scientific d
>Then again, Budapest at that time period produced a great many other world-class scientists and mathematicians, so maybe there are confounding factors there.For one, they were all Ashkenazi too. [0][0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...
Impossible. Even the Nazis had some academics.
They had some of the brightest minds in the world, thanks in part to the Nazi's rejection of "Jewish science".
Very similar to Nazi Germany driving out Jewish scientists. We all know how that ended.
Because WWI and Nazi Germany drove the best scientists from Europe to the US?
I hate to go Godwin on you, but the Nazis also expelled a great number of jewish scientists that turned around and developed the atomic bomb for the US. So you have the V2 rocket on one hand and the atomic bomb on the other. I think your anecdote is decisively on the side of diversity.
Well... for curiosity-sake I clicked through the list of scientists on the Martians page. Every single one of them has Jewish ancestry. So while fascism more generally (right-wing nationalist authoritarianism) doesn't strictly prohibit intellectuals, World War II fascism alienated these folks because of their heritage.There were still lots of smart people in Nazi Germany, as evidenced by Operation Paperclip which brought ~1,600 Nazi scientists over to the US to work on rockets and help t
It's funny how the politicization of science in Nazi Germany led to things like "Aryan physics" to counter the "Jewish physics" of Einstein's relativity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_PhysikAlong with the flight/expulsion/imprisonment/murder of top scientists who weren't ideologically or racially "pure", it'
It seems you're discriminating positively. The Jewish population in Hungary was very large at the time. Many of them were just farmers. Some of them were doctors and engineers and business-men. Those exceptional mathematicians were indeed an exception. This is not to negatively discriminate. Believing that an ethnicity has super-powers or super-flaws is a bias. You notice all the exceptions and don't notice all the other average samples that don't confirm your hypothesis. Also sma