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Comment by surfingdino

2 years ago

Others include Marek Holynski https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Ho%C5%82y%C5%84ski (co-inventor of OpenGL, told by the visiting Russian commie inspector to focus his 3d research on "serious" things like CNC machining), Stefan Kudelski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Kudelski (Nagra audio and video recorders), Staniskaw Ulam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Ulam (Manhattan Project, Monte Carlo methods), Casimir Pulaski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Pulaski, Tadeusz Kosciuszko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko and many more...

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pinewurst  2 years ago

Ulam was Jewish and there’s a difference. My grandfather was from the same area, Galicia and generation and he’d be damned if he’d self-identify as a Pole.

  • lo_zamoyski  2 years ago

    Your grandfather may harbor antipathy toward Poles, but he doesn't speak for Ulam. Ulam, like a number of Poles with Jewish roots, viewed himself as a Pole. Tarski is another example. Jan Brzechwa. Those in the Lvov-Warsaw school of mathematics, like Hugo Steinhaus. Etc.