Yep… this is exactly how the US got Einstein.
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Laura Helmuth
Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.
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Hans Kreb, Hans Bethe, Felix Bloch, Max Born,, James Franck, Otto Frisch, Fritz London, Lise Meitner, Erwin Schrödinger, Otto Stern, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Victor Weisskopf, Eugene Wigner and Fritz Haber
Recognize last names from HS science books?
And I didn’t realize how many of these famed scientists overlapped and were actual friends and colleagues
It emphasized how fascism completely gutted Germany as an advanced society
And remember how most of the embryonic stem cell researchers hi-tailed it to Europe after George W. Bush banned research?
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Hans Bethe, John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, James Franck, Edward Teller, Rudolf Peierls, and Klaus Fuchs. Enrico Fermi fled fascist Italy.
That's a few more Nobel prizes on the pile.