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In Foreign Lands: The Migration of Scientists for Political or Economic Reasons (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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In Foreign Lands: The Migration of Scientists for Political or Economic Reasons (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Trends in the History of Science
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This proceedings volume collects the stories of mathematicians and
scientists who have spent and developed parts of their careers and
life in countries other than those of their origin. The reasons may
have been different in different periods but were often driven by
political or economic circumstances: The lack of suitable
employment opportunities in their home countries, adverse political
systems, and wars have led to the emigration of scientists. The
volume shows that these movements have played an important role in
spreading scientific knowledge and have often changed the
scientific landscape, tradition and future of studies and research
fields. The book analyses in particular: aspects of Euler's,
Lagrange's and Boscovich's scientific biographies, migrations of
scientists from France, Spain and Greece to Russia in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and from Russia to France in
the twentieth century, exiles from Italy before the Italian
Risorgimento, migrations inside Europe and the escape of
mathematicians from Nazi-fascist Europe, between the two World
Wars, as well as the mobility of experts around the world. It
includes selected contributions from the symposium In Foreign
Lands: The Migration of Scientists for Political or Economic
Reasons held at the Conference of the International Academy of the
History of Science in Athens (September 2019).
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