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“Noether, who was Jewish, fled from Germany to the U.S., where she died two years later from cancer”

It wasn’t two years, and it wasn’t cancer. These details are unimportant to the (quite interesting) story, but the error is a sign that the author copies information from unreliable secondary sources, which puts the other facts in the article in doubt.

I wrote to him about the error when the article first appeared, but received no reply.

Noether’s real story is recounted in https://amzn.to/3YZZB4W.

parent leephillips 8 months ago

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