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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: 2) by evilviper on Saturday August 16 2014, @02:26AM
Jews probably made-up the majority, since they were being flagrantly persecuted, and there were special rules in the US fast-tracking their immigration. But indeed, plenty of non-Jews left Germany for the US in the 1930s as well.
And let's not forget Werner Von Braun.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Saturday August 16 2014, @11:06AM
Of course Wernher von Braun went to the USA after the war. And I'm sure the offer he got was that he would not have to bear close examination of what he did under the Nazis if he now worked for the USA.
And I'm sure he was not the only one who was made such an offer.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by evilviper on Saturday August 16 2014, @08:15PM
Actually, no. Pretty much every German got the same deal... Cooperate with the US, or go to Russia.
Just being the "good cop" was the only thing the US needed to have going for it, though you sure can't say the Germans didn't fully deserve the wrath of the Russians after what they did on the Eastern front. Von Braun obviously got some assistance once he became valuable, but even a trial in the US would be far preferable to Russia.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 16 2014, @12:26PM
Jews were not the majority of people who were persecuted in the holocaust. 3 million Poles were executed, 3 million Ukrainians, 3 million Russians, 1.5 million Gypsies, and many other communists, socialists, homosexuals, freemasons, evangelical Christians, mentally and physically disabled, and many other groups the Nazis considered undesirable or inferior [wikipedia.org]. In the United States the history of the holocaust has been largely written by Jews, so they have made it about them exclusively (most Americans are consequently unaware that many more people from other groups than Jews were killed) and they have used it effectively since to influence politics [amazon.com], particularly with respect to Israel.
This reads to me like another part of the same effort, to underscore in a different way how incredibly important Israel is to the United States, despite all other evidence to the contrary [uchicago.edu]. Curiously, it seems to be coming out at a time when Israel's crimes against the Palestinians, especially in Gaza, are on the verge of costing them the public opinion in the United States that they cannot afford to lose.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Informative) by evilviper on Saturday August 16 2014, @07:41PM
It's only when you broaden the definition to include other types of war deaths that the Jewish majority slink below the cutoff. Your own source makes the prominence of Jews clear from the start.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.