The Martians
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This article is about the group of Hungarian scientists. For the book, see Mars trilogy.
"The Martians" was the name of a group of prominent physicists and mathematicians who emigrated from Hungary to the United States in the early half of the 20th century.
They included Leó Szilárd, Paul Erdős, Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller. They received the name from John von Neumann who half-jokingly suggested that Hungary was a front for aliens from Mars. (This is surprisingly analogous to Enrico Fermi's answer to the question whether extra-terrestrial beings exist: "Of course, they are already here among us: they are called Hungarians.")
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