I sympathize with small nations, really, I belong to one of them, in their effort to wave banners with names of their countrymen to whom the mankind is indebted to for their achievements. However, there should be some decency, if not objectivity, in recognizing where and how the achieve-ments are done. Take, for instance, the case of the famous 18^th century scientist and philosopher Roger Boskovich. He was born in 1711 in the city-state Republic of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik, Croatia) and because of that Croats claim that Boscovich is "the greatest and most famous Croatian philosopher and scientist Ruđer Bošković". Well, Roger got only elementary education in his native city and in 1725, age 14, moved to Italy where he spent most of his life, finished higher education, taught at the Roman College for 20 years, and did most of his professional work. He also lived and worked in France for nine years and in England for seven months. He used Italian language in private purposes, visited his hometown Ragusa only once, in 1747, and died in 1787 in Milan, Italy. So, from the professional point of view, if you want to attach a nationality to "scientist Boscovich", only "Italian scientist" is justified. French could probably claim it also, Boscovich was naturalized, but they don’t do that, they are not a small nation.