Aaron Zinger on Range Widely

Great article! Another strong example of the effects of the same brain drain is the atomic bomb--the Nazis did try to invent it, but they'd killed, expelled or driven away everybody who could check Heisenberg's work, so one math error (or "error") doomed the project. Meanwhile, the U.S. recruited its best theoretical physicists from everywhere in the nation, had them all meet up in Los Alamos, whereupon they realized they all knew each other from high school back in Budapest.