Why is it, that most scientists...?

Question

in the media (e.g. movies) have a german dialect? of course, most speak english properly, but those who don't do that have a german dialect (some also russian or japanese).

Answer 1

Gosh, I don't know.  So many many famous physicists were American (e.g., Einstein, Teller, Bethe, Alpers, Gammow, Segre, Fermi, von Braun) that it is hard to see how a German, or at least a vaguely European, accent could ever have been associated with being a scientist.

Answer 2

i've never noticed that.

Answer 3

Many scientists were German. If you watch the movie, "the Right Stuff," when asked about the Russian rocket scientists, a man says, "Our Germans are better than their Germans."  He says this because rocket scientists came out of Germany after WW2.

If the movie is a fiction and the audience has certain preconceptions, satisfy them.  Physicists and psychiatrists have beards and glasses.  You would never see Keanu Reeves playing a physicist.  Women who play scientist roles will have English accents.  Who is the audience more likely to accepted as a chemist by the audience, Angela Bassett, or Judi Dench?

Answer 4

to look like one.