Colleagues,
1. I think that "past service" and "mistreatment" are as weak arguments as trying
to interfere with an institutional personnel or "research strategy" decision.
2. Perhaps better is to be more specific about how molecular spectroscopy, and
the NRC team in particular, are important to goals that the Canadian
government values.
One example I am thinking of is the effort of the Canadian Space Agency to
become a bigger player in space missions to investigate the atmospheres of
the Earth, Mars, and other planets. Spectroscopy matters, as is well
recognized by the US and European space agencies.
Of course, astronomy and astrophysics are other examples, in which Canadian
spectroscopy used to be even more important.
David Huestis
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> Giacinto Scoles wrote:
>
> If my US colleagues agree with me that we should not go into the right of Canadian institutions to do, without interference from south of the border, their own mistakes (after all the same institution many years ago infamously decided, just before the transistor was discovered, to concentrate on vacuum tubes!) but we should concentrate on the really awful way that treated a group of scientists who, for many years, served (and are still serving) their country extremely well , I would be very happy to coordinate a US response in the form of a letter. I will be in my Princeton office all of next week. Giacinto Scoles.
>
> J M Hutson wrote:
>
> > I thought I should send a progress report on what's happening (that I know about) in protesting to NRC about the redundancy notices issued to Phil Bunker, Bob McKellar and others at NRC in Ottawa.
> >
> > After considerable discussion, I decided that my own best action was to coordinate a letter to the Canadian Minister of Industry from a small group of senior British scientists. That has now been sent.
> >
> > Tucker Carrington (Jr) and Wolfgang Jaeger are coordinating a letter to be sent from the Canadian scientific community.
> >
> > Several other people intend (I believe) to send letters on behalf of specific groups such as the UK RSC Spectroscopy and Dynamics Group, the RSC Gas Kinetics Group and the IoP DAMOPP Division.
> >
> > Beyond that, there were a lot of requests to set up an online petition that people in the community could sign. Eckart Wrede tells me that he is in the process of organising that and will post an announcement here when it is actually available for people to add their names.
> >
> > I don't know of specific action being taken in the USA or in other countries.
> >
> > Jeremy Hutson
> >
>
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