Thanks for the article. You captured a few points well, but I think you went into the rabbit hole with others.
Like any unbelievable story, it was a superposition (just to use some physics jargon) of many factors. I collected a few below, definitely not exhaustive, but I hope I captured the main ones.
1. Budapest was actually a metropolis and melting pot in the second half of the XIX. century
2. These scientists had world-class education (in Hungary and in Germany/Switzerland)
3. Emigration to the US that has become a superpower in the XX. century
Thanks for the article. You captured a few points well, but I think you went into the rabbit hole with others.
Like any unbelievable story, it was a superposition (just to use some physics jargon) of many factors. I collected a few below, definitely not exhaustive, but I hope I captured the main ones.
1. Budapest was actually a metropolis and melting pot in the second half of the XIX. century
2. These scientists had world-class education (in Hungary and in Germany/Switzerland)
3. Emigration to the US that has become a superpower in the XX. century
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