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Selling the Stock, Not the Cream: The Soviet Ãmigré Career Premium of the 1990s
Vitaly Pronskikh
In the early-mid 1990s, scientists emigrating from the former Soviet Union to the United States -- especially physicists, engineers, chemists, and biologists -- frequently secured…
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Two Shades of Quark Color: Parallel Canons across the Cold War Divide
Vitaly Pronskikh
The introduction of the color quantum number is conventionally narrated as a linear progression from the quark-model statistics paradox to quantum chromodynamics (QCD). This paper…