Comment is also free here:
http://alicerosebell.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/scientific-importance/
Re: Willetts' absence (and Cable, who you miss on your list too...) -
the first draft of the list we put together was very heavy on science
policy, which is perhaps no surprise considering the judges. However,
James Harding, the Times editor, decided he wanted to showcase
scientific research more, so weeded a lot of the policy people out.
This wasn't something we agreed with, but there you go (It's very much
James' list in the end...)
There are separate sub-lists for those with power on science in
Westminster and Whitehall (p 21) and "power brokers" of uni VCs and RC
heads (p29).
Happy to answer more questions on this if people care about it
(perhaps better on the comments on my blogpost, so more people can see
the discussion), though I should note I'll be offline for most of the
rest of today.
Alice
On 7 October 2010 09:53, Jon Agar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The Times today published a list of 'the 100 most important figures in
> British science'.
> Weirdly, David Willetts, science minister, does not make the list...
>
> Being the Times it's all behind a pay wall but if you are interested I've
> posted the list on the
> UCL STS department's blog, STS Observatory:
>
> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-observatory/?p=532
>
> where comment is free...
>
> cheers
>
> Jon
>
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