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? has a great new post that sheds light on the matter
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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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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
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That’s literally what he does in the blog post i link to
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