Talk:Werner Kuhn (chemist)

redundant Coat-rack content

In its current state, this article is largely a WP:COATRACK for certain properties discovered in natural rubber. That content is, in fact, copy-pasted in the Natural rubber article (Though I'm considering relocating it to the elastomer article). I'm going to remove the content here. This article should discuss what Kuhn did, not just summarize his research. -Verdatum (talk) 18:48, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Jewish?

Interesting. I was studying the countercurrent phenomena and stumbled on Kuhn with his Jewish name, fleeing Germany along with many other German researchers of Jewish descent. Looking to see who discovered or hypothesized countercurrent systems, I found this: Except for Werner Kuhn, all the scientists where Jewish or had Jewish forbears. Kuhn was a swiss citizen who had lived in Germany since 1927; the increasing possibility of a European war played a central role in his decision to leave Germany Szollosi-Janze, Margit (2001), Science in the Third Reich, Berg Publishers, ISBN 1-85973-421-9.

The book is referring to a table of scientific citations from the Nobel prize committee from 1948-1954 in biochemistry of emigres from Germany.

I wonder what the source of these facts are. Could it be that the difference between Kuhn and the other scientists is that they were originally German citizens while he was Swiss, but that he too was originally Jewish or a Jewish (Cohen) descendant, fleeing Germany because of the antisemitic laws, and seeing his colleagues being persecuted? פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 14:41, 25 July 2011 (UTC)