The exile of Jewish professors and professionals caused serious and long lasting damage to Italian culture and Italian scientific development. Emilio Segrè, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959, who came to the United States in 1938, talked of “a draining of the blood of Italian culture that has slowed the progress of the country”.
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