On: Venera: The Soviet Exploration of Venus

[sssilver]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhores_Alferov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Berezin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gersh_Budker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Frank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Frenkel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Fridman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Friedmann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Ginzburg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeni_Gross http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Hessen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Ioffe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulii_Borisovich_Khariton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak_Kikoin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Lifshitz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lifshitz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Mandelstam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Migdal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Markovich_Polyakov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak_Pomeranchuk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Pontecorvo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Rabinovich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Pavlovich_Rapoport http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Tamm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiva_Yaglom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Borisovich_Zel%27dovich

Arguments much?

[pavel_lishin → sssilver]

Clicked on a random one, Igor Tamm - Wikipedia says that "some sources" describe him as Jewish. They're all print books, and I'm not willing to grab them all to settle a meaningless internet argument, but I'd wager that he was not considered Jewish at the time.

In any case, alright; some Jewish scientists did fine. Others didn't. We can praise the things the USSR did well without white-washing its history altogether.

[cgh → sssilver]

How about this guy?

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-Fifth-problem--...