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U.S. patents increased by 31 percent in fields common among Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany for America, according to Stanford economist Petra Moser. Their innovative influence rippled outward for generations, as the emigres attracted new researchers who then trained other up-and-comers. Anecdotal accounts suggest that the arrival of German Jewish emigres to America who were fleeing the Nazi regime in the 1930s revolutionized U.S. science and innovation.
But this claim has never been empirically confirmed until now, thanks to new research by a Stanford economist. Petra Moser, an assistant professor of economics at Stanford, found that the number of U.S. patents increased by 31 percent after 1933 in fields common among those who emigrated from Germany, according to her research paper. In fact, these scientists and inventors led a transformation of American innovation in the post-World War II period.
"German Jewish emigres had a huge effect on U.S. innovation," Moser said in an interview. "They helped increase the quality of research by training a new generation of American scientists, who then became productive researchers in their own rights."
(Score: 3, Informative) by Lagg on Friday August 15 2014, @10:43PM
There were at least two operations launched by the US to grab the useful scientists before Germany could. So it's not too surprising that there was a surge at around that period of time. The fact that they were jews doesn't really have anything to do with it though. They also grabbed scientists that wanted to get out from under nazi rule, some of which were former nazis themselves.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Hairyfeet on Saturday August 16 2014, @05:26AM
Exactly and I wonder where we would have been without Operation Paperclip [wikipedia.org] afterwards considering our space program was built by Nazis using science they first learned with the V2. I'll probably get hate for saying this since it isn't "politically correct" but between all the Jewish scientists we got before the war, the leaps in tech the war itself gave us, and the Nazis scientists after the war? WWII was probably the best thing that ever happened to the USA as a country.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by DrMag on Saturday August 16 2014, @01:38PM
I suspect it wasn't to keep them from the Germans, but from the Russians.
It's no surprise really how the space race turned out; the Soviets were first to get to space, because they walked away with all the Nazi rocket research. The US was the first to get to the Moon, because they walked away with all the Nazi rocket researchers.