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SoItWasYouAllAlong t1_j10czbu wrote

Reply to comment by Generation-WinVista in My mom’s 50 year old magnifier from the CCCP era. The star is a state quality mark of the USSR which works as a certification of quality. by daanikp

You should ease off the propaganda, bud. The following is the list of USSR Nobel laureates in science. Of a total of 8, Lev Landau is the only one I can identify as non-Russian (I'm not sure about it - he was born in Baku, which was in the Russian Empire at the time, but today is in Azerbaijan so I thought I'd count him as non-Russian).

​ Physics:

  • 1958 Pavel Cherenkov, Ilya Frank, Igor Tamm
  • 1962 Lev Landau
  • 1964 Nikolay Basov, Aleksandr Prokhorov
  • 1978 Pyotr Kapitsa

Chemistry:

  • 1956 Nikolai Semenov
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linotype t1_j11b26a wrote

How did you make the leap from manufacturing prowess to Nobel prizes?

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SoItWasYouAllAlong t1_j11dakh wrote

How did you manage to misread "claim to any good" as "manufacturing prowess"? The expression "manufacturing prowess" does not appear in the discussion before you mentioned it.

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an_actual_human t1_j10vjd5 wrote

Landau was Jewish.

A very interesting character BTW, a Soviet Feynman of sorts.

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