- Neils Bohr, from a Jewish/Danish banking family.
- James Clark Maxwell inherited land and wealth in Scotland.
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz… look at the size of the wig on the man!
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Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 months agoWithout independent wealth and deep personal connections it’s incredibly difficult to succeed in academia, regardless of the quality of your research.
Always has been, why do you think he’s called SIR Isaac Newton?
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Neils Bohr, from a Jewish/Danish banking family.come on man, don’t start with something distasteful even if it’s true.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Judaism is distasteful?
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
The idea that mentioning someone’s Judaism is antisemitic, feeds antisemitism.
“To learn who (secretly) rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to
criticizedescribe.”Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He was a dreadful Bohr
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Jewish banking and etc are tied to many (false) conspiracy theories. Me mentioning science has been part of the elites and immediately tying someone who happened to have a family that had bankers that were jewish ties into that in a distasteful/false/etc way.
I’m sure it’s not intentional, but I don’t like giving these idiots more fuel for their fire
yeather@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Also, Newton was not born with the connection, he made them in Grantham. He had a very strained relationship with his mother and step father and was raised by his grandmother.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I was talking about his uncle that gave him an in for University
But I just read that shit off wikipedia so, I’m no scholar. 🤷
yeather@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Oh, yes I suppose that could be. The way I see it Newton would not have been admitted if he could not keep up.