by neufer » Fri Jul 29, 2016 7:25 pm
Fred the Cat wrote:neufer wrote:
That is something Art. After the
Hillarious speech last night you'd think the US is the center of the universe. Our country
is worthy of pride but the world makes science tick.
A lot of Budapest born & educated physicists who escaped demagogues to become Americans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_von_K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n wrote:
<<Theodore von Kármán (May 11, 1881 Budapest - May 6, 1963 Aachen, West Germany) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. He is regarded as the outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of the twentieth century.>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Szilard wrote:
<<Leo Szilard (February 11, 1898, Budapest – May 30, 1964, La Jolla, California) was a Jewish Hungarian-born physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Wigner wrote:
<<Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner (November 17, 1902, Budapest - January 1, 1995 Princeton, New Jersey) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He received half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles".>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann wrote:
<<John von Neumann (December 28, 1903, Budapest - February 8, 1957, Washington, D.C.) was a Hungarian-American pure and applied mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics.>>
[quote="Fred the Cat"][quote="neufer"][quote=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest#Etymology"]
https://www.google.com/#q=hungarian+physicists
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/has-a-hungarian-physics-lab-found-a-fifth-force-of-nature/[/quote]
That is something Art. After the [url=http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/06/13/mad-magazines-hilarious-parody-of-hillary-clintons-dead-broke-comment/]Hillarious[/url] speech last night you'd think the US is the center of the universe. Our country [i]is[/i] worthy of pride but the world makes science tick.[/quote]
A lot of Budapest born & educated physicists who escaped demagogues to become Americans:
[quote=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_von_K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n"]
<<Theodore von Kármán (May 11, 1881 Budapest - May 6, 1963 Aachen, West Germany) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. He is regarded as the outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of the twentieth century.>>[/quote][quote=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Szilard"]
<<Leo Szilard (February 11, 1898, Budapest – May 30, 1964, La Jolla, California) was a Jewish Hungarian-born physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.[/quote][quote=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Wigner"]
<<Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner (November 17, 1902, Budapest - January 1, 1995 Princeton, New Jersey) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He received half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles".>>[/quote][quote=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann"]
<<John von Neumann (December 28, 1903, Budapest - February 8, 1957, Washington, D.C.) was a Hungarian-American pure and applied mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics.>>[/quote][/quote]