The book "Martians of Science" he mentionsis by the father of the Crooked Timber blogger Ezster Hargittai. An interesting thing is that most or all of the Martians were Jewish, but in the West they seemed to identify as Hungarians. I have also read of Austro-Hungarian Jews who would rather have identified as Czechs, though political developments made this difficult.

I also seem to run into Spanish-speaking neurologists a lot (Delgado, Maturana, Varela, and I think more), passibly tracing back to Ramon y Cajal.

There is also a Hungarian contingent in Mongol studies.

I have also read of Austro-Hungarian Jews who would rather have identified as Czechs, though political developments made this difficult.

weren't they mostly german speakers though? paul erdos' family de-germanized their name from what i recall....

My example is Ernest Gellner's father, who chose to be a Czech rather than a Zionist after WWI (the actual choice he had). As I remember, he was bilingual in Czech and German, but primarily a German speaker. Ernest Gellner is fluent in Czech and now works in Eastern Europe. (E. Gellner is an LSE philosopher, an heir of Popper in many respects).

Even Arnold Schoenberg called himself a Bohemian up to a point. However, both he and the elder Gellner found that, as Jews, they were effectively not welcome as Czechs.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was anti-national, and a fair number of German-speakers, not just Jews, did not especially want German nationality.