We should also give fair share of the credit to Budapest and its "Martians". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists) https://en.wikipedia.org/w

We should also give fair share of the credit to Budapest and its "Martians". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists) Most of the great thinkers of the former Austro-Hungarian empire were Jewish, though. The Holocaust thoroughly devastated the Central European intellectual circles and turned a previously important region of the world into a somewhat mediocre place. Not a complete backwater, but a shadow of its former self.