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They were not "The Martians" because of their foreign accents. They were "The Martians" in honor of their out-of-this-world, next-level genius.

Many of these gymnasiums (a.k.a. high schools) inculcated a high-degree of self-confidence in their students’ willingness to trust in themselves an ability to learn. These schools encouraged their students to draw their own conclusions from their individual and communal curiosities. And if it so happened that the students’ curiosities led to an incorrect conclusion, then they were gently corrected yet encouraged to remain both curious and open to drawing conclusions elsewhere. Learning starts with a belief in oneself that one CAN learn. It reminds me of a quote (all caps are mine): “Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in HOW TO LEARN. And the first lesson of all was the basic TRUST that he COULD learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.” - Frank Herbert, “Dune,” 1965

In hungary, we are very proud of their achivements. The school system was reformed by Kuno von Klebelsberg, who set the goal of making the country an "intelectual superpower". The hungarian education system currently has quite a few problems, the biggest is the low amount of respect and compensation the teachers get, ensuring only crazy people (sadly, more often the bad type than the good) get into teaching, and it's a downward spiral. They keep lowering the requirements to get into teaching, but at the same time, keep upping the output requirements, upping class sizes, and cut funding to the point where teachers had to bring printing paper, toilet paper, soap and chalk to some schools. Teachers are constantly overworked, burning out, and ending up very bad teachers. The current system somehow still has some super talented educators and amazing schools, and the good learners often get very good education. The system focuses on the 'talented' kids (measured by the local equivivalent of GPA), and cares very little of those who are a bit slower. Even at elementary schools the groups are sometimes separated at age 10. I was lucky to be born a fast learner and had amazing teachers, but I saw some of the teachers of the 'normal' groups and eww, were they awful. Our schools in fact INCREASE inequalities, be that financial (private tutoring, extra classes) or geographical (some areas have way better schools, even my family considered moving so I can get better schooling, altough my gymnasium is still the best in the region).

Thank you. Nicola Tesla was Serbian born in Croatia. My mother and grandmother were born in Kansas, USA. Their ancestors were from the old Austrian Hungarian Empire. These people were and are my heroes. Thanks, again.

John Von Neumann counts for 3 geniuses

Amazing video. Well put together. thank you for sharing. The Genius of Hungary. 🇭🇺

I went to Budapest recently. I found out that they have a great history of scientific intellect.

I think the language is partly responsible. There are no prepositions in Hungarian. The language uses posposition tags so that you have to wait until the end of the sentence to find out who did what. It maks people better listeners. In English, we use lots of prepositions, so we know where the speaker is going before they are done, oe so we think. Also, the language is completely phonetic. If you ask how to spell something and how to pronounce something, it is the same question. This saves about two years in language studies over English. English has its advantages, though. You can say just about anything in English. My son's second cousin is a math teacher in Hungary. When he was visiting, my son learned more in two days from him than he learned in an entire semester in high school. Another of my son's second cousins has finished his PhD in Engineering. He has done some post doctoral work at MIT and will be doing more at Cal Tech. One of my Hungarian friends has a PhD in Mathematics and is Erdos 2. Yes, there are a lot of brilliant Hungarians.

Don’t forget, that at the end of WW1 the 2/3 of Hungary was teared down from the country and that gave flame to natioanlism.

Interesting is that the Erdös number is from Hungary a place with many exceptional mathematicians.

Hungarians making Mercedes Benz safe ( Béla Barényi) and ball-pens and other inventions would also be an interesting video.

Back in the 1960s, my dad's boss at Ampex was Peter Szego, Gabor Szego's son. Peter gave my dad his first programming manual, on BASIC.

"In 1944, Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy saved more Jews than anyone else in the world. Yet today, next to the efforts of heroic diplomats like Carl Lutz and Raoul Wallenberg, Horthy has become a forgotten footnote to history. The reason? At first glance, Horthy-a self-proclaimed anti-Semite and anti-Communist-was not exactly a hero for the textbooks. But the truth isn’t so simple. Closer examination shows that Horthy paid lip service to the Nazis while privately strategizing how to prevent deportation of the Jews. Horthy defied Hitler, took back partial power and forbade further deportations, ultimately preventing a quarter-million Hungarian Jews from perishing in the Holocaust."

We are taking this video to 1 million.

Paul Erdős is missing here!

Don't forget greatest virtuoso pianists: Franz Liszt and Giorgi Cziffra. Probably nobody on earth ever had the technical ability these two people had. Cziffra was also a stunning jazz pianist and could also improvise using the most difficult passagework imaginable. Liszt, well probably nobody could play as well or had the technical powers he had. Liszt was also a genius arranger. And Liszt wrote some great tunes. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)

The way you narrate is excellent, you really transmit the story and you have a beautiful voice. Thank you for educating the world.

Richard Feynman (Pictured bottom second from last) was actually American.

They were hungary for scientific discoveries

I am genuinely surprised how accurate was your research and i am more surprised how i didn't connect some of the dots before. I am Hungarian btw. Excellent video.

This could be one of the most important videos of the year. It will probably ignored by 80% of -people.

Some Remarks, if interested: -"Minta" means sample/example, "Minta Gimnázium" refer its role in training pre-degree teachers at the university right across the street (now named after Eötvös, Loránd ), so it also translates to "Etalon High-school" -The map showing the territories of Austria and Hungary is not correct, as the post-1920 territories was shown. We might agree that either the date of these scientist's birth is relevant for denoting area of these states, or the area where Hungarian-speaking people were in majority at that time. Even the town of Margitta is not on the shown territory. The full name "margittai Neumann János" translates to John Neumann von/of Margitta. -Some of the "martians" gave credit to the Hungarian language also. Maybe it was Teller, Ede. Our language use "most significant first" ordering (names, numbers, dates, etc). Instead of saying: "Johann von Neumanns geburtstag ist in "8-und-20ste Dezember, 9-10-100-3", we say: "Margittai Neumann János születésnapja 1000-900-3, December 20-on-8-adikán van." See also: health is "Unit/Whole-ness", to fear is "1/2", doubt is two-ness, union is "one-ness". And also, we use no genders. There is not even any translation of "gender" to Hungarian. So, we can only translate it as "sex". Hope, that will help.

Richard Feynman was born in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York: that may be the source of his foreign accent. ;)

It is worth to take a look for some of these "hungarian" scientist. Neumann, Teller, Semmelweis, Ulmann... Szilárd leó ( born name: Spitz Leo), Richter Gedeon, and a lot more.. Half of them are jewish and/or german origin.

Gosh, it is so ridiculously obvious why so many great scientists come from Hungary. They are Hungary for Knowledge!

Why were ancient astronomers, scientists and philosophers only Greeks?

Great video!

I wish that the U.S. would have done more to help the Hungarians in 1956.

Of all the people mentioned in this video, I found only 1 not being Jewish: Laszlo Racz. Wikipedia states his mother was a Danube German. Also, his surname suggests that his paternal lineage was Serbian (Racz is the old Hungarian word for a Serb).

There was a specific time where this genius was cultivated, the school system was truly something that would guide you and encourage you, too bad what it has become.

wait wait wait. ive always been fantasizing of a fictional scenario where in a world where most advanced knowledge is already discovered, they kind of allow scholars to go through discovering past discoveries themselves. your telling me this is an actual thing done for an actual schools in hungary? holy shit! well not including the whole "all advanced knowledge is already known" part. but developing students in this way is just is wild!

Great video. Very informative!

THE FLAG IS FLIPPED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MEANWHILE My country destroying our education system forcing us to learn 2 years of material in 1 year..Good teachers are needed to make good students

Excellent video.

Amazing video. I've had this very conversation with friends regarding higher education for years now. You owe a great deal to that type of foundation your education system builds for its students.

I am Vietnamese and Magyarország (Hungary) is one of my favorite countries. Her culture, people, land and history are SO BEAUTIFUL!!! I want to live there.🥰😍

This whole video just breaks down into "hard Times create strong (wo)men"

The schooling industry clearly needs to take a good look at those schools, and do whatever they did to produce results like those.

Probably already mentioned but the book "The man from the future" about JVN is very good (listened as an audiobook on Spotify)

I may have missed but did you mention Vannevar Bush, the Carnegie Institute and their receptiveness to Einstein`s recommending the Hungarians?

Thank God Hungary is sticking up for their people =)

As a Hungarian, thank you for this presentation. A small note: "Minta gimnázium" means "Exemplary High School" and is a nickname. The proper name of that High School was: "ELTE Trefort Ágoston Gyakorlóiskola" abbreviated as "Trefort". Everybody knows it here as the "Trefort".

+1 for a mention of Michael Polyani. His work on "tacit knowledge" is fascinating.

Very important video

It might not be a sufficient justification, but it should be noted that Horthy's numerus clausus law (the limiting of the number of Jewish students in universities) was a direct result of the treaty of Trianon. While many of the country's cultural institutions, including schools and universities were torn away, it also resulted in about 4-500 thousand refugees fleeing the mistreatment in the neighboring successor states. These two combined have put a noticeable strain on post-ww1 Hungary's educational system, so the numerus clausus was just as much a law for the Hungarian students as it was against the Jews. It shows how one unfair event can lead down to a spiral of other injustices.

Great video, thanks for the work.

I have heard that the education system in India 🇮🇳 is the opposite: learning a lot of formulas by heart. That’s why they fail in engineering despite having genius level IIT universities. China failed for a very long time. Now they are at least excellent in bridge construction. We in Switzerland 🇨🇭 were closer to the Hungarian 🇭🇺 system in mathematics. However our physics teacher from AUSTRIA 🇦🇹 was a desaster! (When he thought mathematics or programming this ended in disasters too).

Learning HOW things were discovered is just as important as learning WHAT has been discovered.

What a lovely video. Not too long and not too short, the video transitions and editing is top notch!!! Well done and you've gained a sub

Thx a lot 😊

@newsthink we loove your videos so much, they're really inspiring🧡🧡💛💛💚💚💙💙❤❤❤❤

As I wrote in another comment a month ago: "...the Einstein-Szilard letter from August 1939 didn't cause much action in the US. The immediate consequences were a relatively small research program. In fact, it was the Frisch-Peierls memorandum from March 1940 (which in historical review already contained the schematic of a blueprint for the gun-type design of the atomic bomb) which led to the activity of the MAUD committee and the Tube Alloys project in the UK later on, way before the start of the Manhattan project. And it was Mark Oliphant (a guy from Australia, who was a member of the MAUD committee and who then primarily worked on the new RADAR technology, and who finally got lucky to have Rudolf Peierls sitting nearby in the same building (who could solve one or two difficult problems for Oliphant - despite the fact that Peierls and Frisch didn't posses security clearance at that time ;-)) visiting the US in August 1941 who reminded the scientific community in the US about the existence of the MAUD committee report. That report had been sent to the US before, but Lyman Briggs (director of the US Uranium Committee) had put that report into his safe. And had not shown it to any member of his own committee. There was meeting then on 26th of August 1941 with Mark Oliphant and the Uranium Committee to discuss the issue. Finally, Oliphant met with his friend Ernest Lawrence on September 23th in Berkeley, where Lawrence did receive a copy of the Frisch-Peierls memorandum. And Lawrence then informed Robert Oppenheimer to check the figures. But this it not the end of the story. Mark Oliphant convinced Ernest Lawrence to convert his 37-inch cyclotron into a giant mass spectrometer for electromagnetic isotope separation. So, in the end, it was some guy from Australia and not the the (first) Einstein-Szilard letter who caused the action. ..."

There's a picture of Feynman in there. He's from Rockaway.

I love hearing that letter signing wasn't neither a accident, nor a attempt to steal glory, but a fully tactical choice so the higher ups would take notice

Congratulations for this summary, with all the knowledge painfully missed from the recent Hollywood film. Rátz László should have received a recognition, since his students invented the two most proliferic invention of the last century, nuclear power and computers. Notwithstanding, maybe the two most devastating could become, if not used with control and good purpose.

Hungary is based and not politically correct they just do what has to be done.

Poland has many geniuses too

had this question in mind for some time now, thank you for the answer

Great insightful video. Wish we could do this with the public schools in the US. Imagine your r that would change the way we moved as a society.

I love this videos, they tell of how geniuses were formed.

It is not about either Hungary, Göttingen in Germany in past or USA in today, it 's all about either Jewish descendants or not. It's true that there are so many non-jewish great scientists. But this is atleast true for most theoretical scientists. Today a major reason for USA to become the hub in scientific creation not because Americans are inherently intelligent, but immigration of Europian Jews from Europe to USA amidst WW2. Just search the background of greatest living theoretical physicsts like Wittten , Glashow , Weinberg[recently died] , Susskind ,Alan Guth , David Gross etc; They all are Americans by the nationality. But they all have Jewish roots.

If we talk Horthy, it is important to mention the disastrous "Tanácsköztársaság" (Hungarian Soviet Republic) that mercifully only lasted 133 days (March 21st 1919 to August 1st 1919). Horthy took power only at March 1st 1920, and who knows whether he would have appeared on stage at all if the "Tanácsköztársaság" would not have happened!

still need to watch the video but misstake at 00:02 the second bottom picture from the right is richard feynman he was born in queen yet you were showing him together with scientists from europe, but tbh its just a small misstake

This is great achievement I am in an under developing nation so we need your support don't hesitate teach us more skills, thankyou.

NOTE : the one of humanitys greatest device where whirten on the budapests islands sands first, that is how the legend goes.

수천년간 박해를 당한 유대민족은 문화 학술 상업에 종사하면서 뛰어난 사람만 지속적으로 살아남고 안정적으로 살던 다른 민족보다 더 빠르게 지적자본을 창출한듯.우주에도 여러 지적생명체 민족이 있겠지만 혹독한 핵재앙 전염병테러 지적 시뮬레이션 테러 등등을 견디고 생명체 단위로 살아남았다면 뭐든지 할 수 있을거임.

I appreciate the making of this great video as a Hungarian!

Baghdad's house of wisdom Britain's Royal Society French academy of sciences Hungarian minta gymnasium There is always an institution for every golden age of science

The flag shown at approx. 0:10 is NOT Hungarian but Italian flag! Hungarian flag is Red-White and Green...Not the other way around.

Our Heritage is Here!

0:02 Feynman (bottom row, third from left) was born in New York City, his accent was Bronx. Not quite a martian.

So many great scientists LEFT Hungary.

A bit of a slight rewrite about how in open arms America was to Jews in the ww1-ww2 era. Jews were still very much discriminated at the time. Including universities. Maybe renowned scientists could have some weight. But students were not given places at prestigious universities. MIT has such an output of notable Jewish alumni because they weren't able to get into Harvard.

Add to the list Two Minute Papers AI KZfaqr Dr. Károly "What a time to be alive!" Zsolnai-Fehér

Fun fact the inventor of the Rubik's cube Erno Rubik I from Hungary

In Hungary, the current school system is far inferior compared to the schools back then. Sadly those times are gone.

So, I would like to know why this sort of teaching hasn't taken over as mainstream in Europe. We're still tested on how many details and formulas we can memorize for a fortnight

I like how people say that the hungarian education system was so good and now we want to swap it out becauseit is bad.

The brilliant Dr TS Szasz too

Good 😊👍

Unfortunately, American schools are prestigious in name only but not in reality.

Except for two (Ratz and Heisenberg), each and every scientist mentioned in this video was Jewish (although some converted to Christianity). It wasn't the education system, it's just that Hungary had one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe at the time (I know the video mentions this factor, but it makes it seems like there are others with equal significance)

Nick Szabo was born in America from Hungarian emigrant parents

Richard Feynman in the group of Europeans called Martians because of their accent !!?? He was born and raised in NYC...

The thing is Hungarians speak such a hard language that only geniuses are able to communicate there, and normal people die of hunger.

I'm really Hungary for knowledge!

All were Hungary for Knowledge. When hell froze over, it was renamed Chile.

Love it

Look at their schools...they teach, not babysit.

great thinkers come from countries where money isn't an obstacle to learning.

Nobody mention the "paperclips"

Check on the math/science olympiad winners during the sixties and seventies

And yet the CAUSE of gravity escaped their competence. Discovered/ published in 2002 by a Canadian electrical engineer: Mark McCutcheon ; “The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy “, for proper physics. The only genius I’m aware of.

2:40 creating the atomic bomb is not a praise worthy invention.

true

When talking about Hungarian Jews, how can you leave out Paul Erdős. He was the most prolific mathematician with 1,500 mathematical papers published during his lifetime.

Romeo O. Romeo ✅

I'm watching from Hungary... Let's see! :) (Na nézzük csak!) .... jó kis mondás van 6:02-nél (good phrase).