Can Japan make Einsteins too? (Japan is spending more on basic science than ever before) (Science and Technology)

The Economist (US) | August 11, 1990 | Copyright

THE Japanese are less creative than westerners. So say some Japanese, and some westerners, in an attempt to explain why a country that can make some of the world's most advanced electronic products has won fewer Nobel science prizes since the war than Switzerland. Japanese scientists, so the argument goes, lack the inventiveness to produce insight into the workings of nature. That ability seems to be reserved for European and American researchers.

Nonsense. Before the second world war Japan had excellent researchers. In 1935 a theorist called Hideki Yukawa, working ...

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