All/most of the US National labs are still incredibly productive at making big discoveries. I attribute it largely to the culture and organization system Ernest Lawrence set up during the Manhattan Project, which persists to this day- and of course generous funding.
Absolutely! I’ve gotten to work on some projects with folks from the labs - pretty much meaningless projects in the grand scheme of research going on there, but still feel proud to have done it and lucky to have worked with them.
However, the US didn't accept "Nazi science" when they accepted actual Nazis, because there's no such thing as Nazi science, any more than there is Jewish science; there is just science performed by individuals and groups, who may share a heritage, country, or culture, or may not.
Speaking of Jews involved in the project, Ethel Rosenberg's brother was working at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project, and she and her husband were already working on behalf of the USSR as early as 1942.
> Rosenberg had been introduced to Semyonov by Bernard Schuster, a high-ranking member of the Communist Party USA and NKVD liaison for Earl Browder. After Semyonov was recalled to Moscow in 1944 his duties were taken over by Feklisov.
> Feklisov learned through Rosenberg that Ethel's brother David was working on the top-secret Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory; he directed Julius to recruit Greenglass.
> In February 1944, Rosenberg succeeded in recruiting a second source of Manhattan Project information, engineer Russell McNutt, who worked on designs for the plants at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For this success Rosenberg received a $100 bonus. McNutt's employment provided access to secrets about processes for manufacturing weapons-grade uranium.
All of this is not to say that being Jewish or Gentile is a sign of scientific rigor or moral uprightness or lack thereof, but rather to say that "misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows," and that Nazis and Jews were both miserable, but in entirely different senses of the word, and that misery led to both astonishing atrocities and roses growing from concrete.
It never ceases to amaze me what an environment Los Alamos was for producing so much foundational research.