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"Like most Jewish academics in Germany, Emmy Noether was fired after the Nazis came to power in 1933. She left later that year for Bryn Mawr College in the U.S [...]"

Compared to what's happening now, it's totally frightening.

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Also, before that she worked for several years as an unpaid faculty member because she joined the faculty because David Hilbert recognised the importance of her work but there was some sort of Prussian regional bureaucrat who would have had to sign off on her getting a paid position or something and they and/or the university didn’t believe that a woman should teach at a university. So one of the giants of abstract algebra who made a key discovery in physics got screwed over for being a woman and then screwed over again for being Jewish.

Incidentally, there was a report on Friday that German research institutions are seeing a substantial increase in applications from the US, presumably due to the US government cutting research funding.

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