Brilliance in Exile
The Diaspora of Hungarian Scientists from John von Neumann to Katalin Karik
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Central European University Press
- Date of Publication 15 March 2023
- ISBN 9789633866061
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages342 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 630 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 140 b&w illus. Illustrations, black & white 1075
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By addressing the enigma of the exceptional success of Hungarian emigrant scientists and telling their life stories, Brilliance in Exile combines scholarly analysis with fascinating portrayals of uncommon personalities. Istv&&&225;n and Balazs Hargittai discuss the conditions that led to five different waves of emigration of scientists from the early twentieth century to the present. Although these exodes were driven by a broad variety of personal motivations, the attraction of an open society with inclusiveness, tolerance, and &&&8211; needless to say &&&8211; better circumstances for working and living, was the chief force drawing them abroad.
While emigration from East to West is a general phenomenon, this book explains why and how the emigration of Hungarian scientists is distinctive. The high number of Nobel Prizes among this group is only one indicator. Multicultural tolerance, a quickly emerging, considerably Jewish, urban middle class, and a very effective secondary school system were positive legacies of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Multiple generations, shaped by these conditions, suffered from the increasingly exclusionist, intolerant, antisemitic, and economically stagnating environment, and chose to go elsewhere. &&&8220;I would rather have roots than wings, but if I cannot have roots, I shall use wings, explained Leo Szilard, one of the fathers of the Atom Bomb.
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