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TTPrograms on Oct 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How English beat German as the language of science

I'm under the impression that a majority of the most prominent scientists were taken to USA post WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

dreamweapon on Oct 13, 2014 [–]

OP recruited a lot of talented people, but (apart from von Braun) they certainly weren't Germany's "most prominent" scientists, by any stretch. A few Wikipedia-notables (largely due to their participation in OP), but hardly any household names, as it were.

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