Believe it or not there is a respectable number of scientists, physicists no less, who make a living doing nothing but bringing 80 year old Soviet Science to the west.

Every so often they get the front pages of nature for essentially finding anti-gravity: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/012345/full/news.2008.1185.h...

Or you find actually build computer architectures and languages which American theoretical computer scientists rediscovered 30 years later as the most efficient possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun