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John von Neumann and his friend Eugene Wigner both emigrated to the USA in 1930. They became the most highly cited in their respective fields. Coincidence?

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has a great new post that sheds light on the matter

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Innovators Who Immigrate

Big impacts for people who move to countries where science is happening

12:48 PM · Feb 1, 2023

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Got a copy of your book today, and already hooked.

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Brilliant thank you! Hope you enjoy it to the very last page!

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"Talent is spread equally over the planet" Is that plausible?

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The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project

I. A group of Manhattan Project physicists created a tongue-in-cheek mythology where superintelligent Martian scouts landed in Budapest in the late 19th century and stayed for about a generation, a…

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Entirely. The Martians were a brief blip in history. Of course a country might make it self an hospitable environment for science and maths, which arguably Hungary was for a while. Every single Martian made their careers abroad though...

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That is really interesting. Talent then flows towards money, is what I take from that -?

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Not quite. Talent which has the *opportunity* to flow towards money does better than talent that does not or cannot do so.

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Johnny, Wigner, Bethe, Ulam are not your average run of mill immigrants; show me stats on citations of immigrants excluding the German exodus from 1929-1939