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TIL: George Bredig escaped the Nazi regime when Princeton offered him a job in 1940. Scientists and professors who did not swear an oath to the regime were fired. He managed to save his research and made significant contributions to electro chemistry. The Nazis lost 26% of their university chemists.

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