God’s gift to the world produced by the Jewish mind
A friend recently said “It's yet another enormous benefit to humanity produced by the Jewish mind, finally freed from dispersion among the nations of the world, liberated and safe in our own National Homelands.”
-- Eliyahu
Israeli scientists say they cured mice of Alzheimer’s using newly developed molecule
Effectiveness shown via behavior tests and brain analysis, say authors of research; they stress it’s a small sample and progress to human drug, if successful, will take time
By NATHAN JEFFAY 21 February 2023, 10:14 pm
Two months after Hitler was appointed chancellor, the German government issued the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. the 7 April 1933 law ordered that those in government positions who had at least one Jewish grandparent or were political opponents of the Nazi Party be immediately dismissed. Thousands of people lost their jobs as teachers, judges, police officers—and academics at the country’s top universities.
Over the next several years, hundreds of German scientists and other intellectuals would flee to the UK, the US, and dozens of other countries to protect their livelihoods and their lives. The Nazi regime pushed out leading researchers such as Albert Einstein, Hans Krebs, and even national hero Fritz Haber. The extraordinary intellectual exodus would have tremendous implications for not only Germany but also the countries that took in the refugees.
Left to right: Hertha Sponer, Albert Einstein, Hugo Grotrian, Ingrid Franck, Wilhelm Westphal, James Franck, Otto von Bayer, Lise Meitner, Peter Pringsheim, Fritz Haber, Gustav Hertz, and Otto Hahn gather at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin in 1921. Half of the people in the photo were listed as displaced in the 1930s. Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Aristid V. Grosse Collection
Unsurprisingly, the UK and the US were the most popular destinations. Einstein and Franck headlined the 30 German physicists who relocated to American institutions such as the Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard, and Stanford. Teller, Schrödinger, and 34 others headed to Cambridge, Oxford, and other UK destinations. Many of those physicists eventually became key contributors to the Manhattan Project.
Other countries gained from Germany’s brain drain too. Ernst Alexander and Günther Wolfsohn helped jump-start the fledgling experimental physics department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Gerhard Herzberg landed a job at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, where he would perform work on the spectra of free radicals that would garner the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The young republic of Turkey eagerly courted German astronomers, experimental physicists, and other academics to bolster its educational institutions.
RUSSIA'S BRAIN DRAIN IS ISRAEL'S GAIN
By Storer H. Rowley and Tribune Staff Writer
Chicago Tribune
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Mar 02, 1997 at 12:00 am
Some 750,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union, most of them highly educated, have poured into Israel in the 1990s due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, helping feed the far-reaching growth in advanced technologies that is transforming Israeli society.
If Russia's brain drain was Israel's gain, it is fitting that Sharansky, 49, a mathematician and chess master, should be promoting Israel's integration into regional and global markets.
"The new immigrants who came in the last years doubled the number of engineers and scientists and doctors in Israel," Sharansky said. "As a result, Israel has the most scientists and engineers as a proportion of the number of its workers--almost two times more than America and three times more than Germany."
A minister in the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Sharansky exemplifies the kind of high-powered intellectual that the Soviet Union fought so hard to keep during the Cold War. He recently completed a trade mission to Russia and visited Moscow's Lefortovo prison, where he was once jailed.
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