Photos of nine Martians of Budapest: von Neumann, Erdos, Wigner, Teller, Szilard, Karman, Halmos, Polya and Kemeny
John von Neumann, Paul Erdős, Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller, Leó Szilárd, Theodore von Kármán, Paul Halmos, George Polya and John G. Kemeny

The Martians of Budapest

Jørgen Veisdal
Cantor’s Paradise
22 min readJul 24, 2020

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“There is a rumor in America that there are two intelligent races on Earth: Humans and Hungarians” — Isaac Asimov

“The Martians of Budapest”, sometimes simply “The Martians” is a colloquial term used to describe a group of prominent Hungarian physicists and mathematicians who emigrated to the United States following the Great Purge of 1933. The…

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