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59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Red Scare and the McCarthy Era
In 1952, Boam is trapped in Brazil. By now, it's the height of the red scare and the McCarthy era. He can't defend his ideas through anything other than writing letters to people. And so mostly he's just ridiculed. The fact that he was a communist also didn't help not only because he couldn't leave Brazil but because at that time, most physics funding was coming from the military.
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