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		regularization 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 div... From 1901 up to FDR's election in 1932, 5 Americans won Nobel Prizes in the sciences. There was not much government funding back then, and not much was going on either.

absolutelastone 3 months ago [–]

There was a massive tech boom in that time with technologies like cars, electricity, and communications.

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