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For further perspective, I also recommend reading Scott Alexander's retelling at https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-considered-as-hungarian-
by qsi 5y ago
For further perspective, I also recommend reading Scott Alexander's retelling at
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-considered-as-hungarian-high-school-science-fair-project/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...
- IlliOnato 5y agoIt's a bit strange that Scott Alexander, when counting famous physicists with Jewish ancestry, counts zero of Russian/Soviet ones, and ever tries to explain this (pogroms, persecution, etc.) There is quite a number of such physicists. Lev Landau, Abram Ioffe, Igor Tamm, Mikhail Leontovich, Zhores Alferov, Alexander Friedmann, Matvei Bronstein. A list of famous Russian/Jewish mathematicians is also impressive. Overall, ethnic Jews were totally over-represented in Soviet science...
- jleyank 5y agoIt helped not being a specific political target of the state.