Maybe also - though cause/effect is hard to tease out - the rise of English as the dominant language in scientific and academic communication played a part here

Maybe also - though cause/effect is hard to tease out - the rise of English as the dominant language in scientific and academic communication played a part here (surely buoyed by US global standing and the destruction of Europe during the war(s)). Some interesting factoids: > This graph showing the number and percentage of research papers published in English / Non-English [1] > Newton’s Principia Mathematica was written in Latin; Einstein’s first influential papers were written in German; Marie Curie’s work was published in French. Yet today, most scientific research around the world is published in a single language, English. [2] > Since the middle of the last century, things have shifted in the global scientific community. English is now so prevalent that in some non-English speaking countries, like Germany, France, and Spain, English-language academic papers outnumber publications in the country’s own language several times over. In the Netherlands, one of the more extreme examples, this ratio is an astonishing 40 to 1. [2] [1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/4c61e2a0-f5fe-4851-9d4b-5f016aa151f3/leap1089-fig-0002-m.jpg https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/4c61e2a0-f5fe-4851... [2] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/08/english-universal-language-science-research/400919/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/08/english-...