"Historians have noted how Baron Eötvös’s educational efforts led to an explosion of genius — such luminaries as the physicists Edward Teller, Eugene Wigner, Leo Szilard, and the mathematician John von Neumann all came out of Budapest during the Eötvös era. The production of Hungarian scientists and mathematicians in the early twentieth century was so prolific that many otherwise calm observers believe Budapest was settled by Martians in a plan to infiltrate and take over the planet."