Brilliance in Exile : : The Diaspora of Hungarian Scientists from John von Neumann to Katalin Karikó / / Balazs Hargittai, István Hargittai.

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. István and Balazs Hargittai discuss the conditions that led to five different wa...

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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (342 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • Joseph A. Galamb
  • Philipp Lenard
  • Part 1 Early 1920s
  • Introduction: Fleeing
  • Ervin Bauer
  • Stephen Brunauer
  • Ladislaus Farkas
  • Dennis Gabor
  • George de Hevesy
  • Theodore von Kármán
  • Arthur Koestler
  • Stephen W. Kuffler
  • Nicholas Kurti
  • Cornelius Lanczos
  • John von Neumann
  • Egon Orowan
  • Michael Polanyi
  • George Pólya
  • Elizabeth Rona
  • Leo Szilard
  • Maria Telkes
  • Edward Teller
  • Eugene P. Wigner
  • “Control” —Imre Bródy
  • Part 2 Late 1930s–early 1940s
  • Introduction: Before It Is Too Late
  • Michael and Alice Balint
  • Ladislao José Biro
  • Paul Erdos
  • John G. Kemeny
  • Olga Kennard
  • Peter D. Lax
  • George J. Popjak
  • Valentine L. Telegdi
  • Laszlo Tisza
  • Part 3 Immediate Post-World War II
  • Introduction: Post-War and Pre-Soviet Trauma
  • Endre A. Balazs
  • Zoltan Bay
  • Georg von Békésy
  • Lars Ernster
  • John C. Harsanyi
  • Avram Hershko
  • Georg Klein and Eva Klein
  • Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Part 4 1956
  • Introduction: In the Wake of Suppressed Revolution
  • Laszlo Z. Bito
  • Andy Grove
  • Peter Lengyel
  • Joseph Nagyvary
  • George A. Olah
  • Gabor A. Somorjai
  • Part 5 1957–1989
  • Introduction: Escape from “Paradise”
  • Gyorgy Buzsaki
  • Gabor Fodor
  • Katalin Karikó
  • Charles Simonyi
  • Agnes Ullmann
  • “Control”—Árpád Furka
  • Conclusion
  • Thirty Years Later, and Continuing
  • Acknowledgments
  • Select Bibliography
  • The Authors
  • Also by the Authors
  • Index of Names