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We've done technology without the world wars, but what about just without WW2?
The scenario would probably be a standard trope: Hitler dies early, let's say in the Munich Putsch in the 1920's, so doesn't raise up the Nazi party and Germany ends up with a right wing authoritarian government, but not one that is explicitly anti-Semitic or intellectual. That way the German Jewish and left wing intelligentsia stays in Germany, continuing their work at German universities. This deprives the British, French, and US universities of their work, while keeping together the intellectual community that produced so many advances and Nobel Prizes in the 1920's-30's.

Politically let's say Versailles is gone by 1938 and Austria united with Germany by 1939-40. Other than that Germany doesn't expand and reintegrates after working out some issues (peacefully) with Poland.

No WW2 then and the USSR doesn't invade Europe.

What happens to science and technology without the war and with such a situation in Europe?
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