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   Knud Jahnke (knud@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 04:36:24 JST Knud Jahnke

   • mekka okereke :verified:
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   @mekkaokereke @lerxst @OldFartPhil @grumpasaurus

   In the 1920s science spoke German. After 1945 science spoke English.

   And rebuilding Germany after the war only worked with US help. A lot of it.

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     Michael Busch (michael_w_busch@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 04:36:22 JST Michael Busch

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     @dpnash @knud @mekkaokereke @lerxst @OldFartPhil @grumpasaurus

     Similarly; there is a lot of geology that was first done in German - e.g. both "Triassic" & "Jurassic" come from German, and "Cretaceous" came from French but gets abbreviated "K" from German "Kreide".

     But the operator of the account above seems to have confused the obviously false "all science was German" for the true "the Nazis destroyed German science" that is the point of the thread.

     So I am done.

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     Michael Busch (michael_w_busch@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 04:36:23 JST Michael Busch

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     @whknott@mastodon.social @knud @mekkaokereke @lerxst @OldFartPhil @grumpasaurus

     My grandfather still had a German technical dictionary along with the French one from his time in college studying geology just before WWII.

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     David Nash (dpnash@c.im)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 04:36:23 JST David Nash

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     @michael_w_busch @knud @mekkaokereke @lerxst @OldFartPhil @grumpasaurus Couple anecdotes from my life as an aspiring young scientist (late 80s/early 90s, major and Ph. D. in chemistry):

     1. The undergraduate school I went to (small STEM-oriented college) had a foreign language requirement for admission. It had no requirements for specific language but said "preferably German".

     2. UC Berkeley, one of the candidates I had for grad school in the early 1990s, either required or strongly recommended that its chemistry graduate students take at least introductory German.

     In both cases, this was not because current research needed an understanding of the German language. Of course, by the 1990s English had been the dominant language in chemistry research for decades. It's because an absolutely enormous amount of historically relevant chemistry research, particularly in organic chemistry, was done by German researchers in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Beilstein database, one of the premier collections of data about publications in organic chemistry, began in the late 1800s and did not publish information in English until the 1960s.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beilstein_database

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     Wyatt H Knott (whknott@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 04:36:24 JST Wyatt H Knott

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     @knud @mekkaokereke @lerxst @OldFartPhil @grumpasaurus Before WW2, Science spoke English and French. Math spoke English, French, German and Yiddish. Stop centering German pre-war science.