"Martian" Hungarians

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)

"The Martians" (Hungarian: "A marslakók") were a group of prominent scientists
(mostly, but not exclusively, physicists and mathematicians) of Hungarian Jewish descent
who emigrated from Europe to the United States in the early half of the 20th century."

Cornelius Lanczos[3]
Edward Teller
Egon Orowan
Eugene Wigner[4][5][3]
Franz Alexander
George de Hevesy
George Olah
George Pólya
John G. Kemeny
John Harsanyi
John Polanyi
John von Neumann
Leó Szilárd
Paul Erdős
Paul Halmos
Peter Carl Goldmark
Peter Lax
Theodore von Kármán
Valentine Telegdi

"Leo Szilard jokingly suggested that Hungary was a front for aliens from Mars.
In an answer to the question of why there is no evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth
(called the Fermi paradox) despite its high probability of existence, Szilárd responded:
"They are already here among us – they just call themselves Hungarians." This account is
featured in György Marx's book The Voice of the Martians."

Szilard with Teller, Wigner, etc., as early as 1939, convinced Einstein to write the famous letter to
Roosevelt, who then ordered The Manhattan Project resulting in the development of the Atomic Bomb, out
of fear that Nazis would develop one first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szilard_letter

If The Nazis hadn't come into power in the 1930's and forced the Jewish Hungarian "Martians" to emigrate,
perhaps....

jody