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Nature 444, 547-548 (30 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/444547a; Published online 29 November 2006
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The Hungarian martians
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BOOK REVIEWED-The Martians of Science
by István Hargittai
Oxford University Press: 2006. 376 pp. £19.99 $34.50
The Martians of Science tells the gripping story of five brilliant and colourful Hungarian scientists — Theodore von Kármán, John von Neumann, Leó Szilárd, Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner — who had an extraordinary impact on their profession and on world events in the twentieth century. Fritz Houtermans, a physicist who knew them all in the 1930s, once quipped that they "were really visitors from Mars", hence the book's title.
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