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:
[log in to unmask]" type="cite">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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GIACINTO SCOLES, FRS
Professor of Biophysics at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore
di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Consultant at ELETTRA Sincrotrone
Trieste and Donner Professor of Science at PRINCETON UNIVERSITY,
wrote this message in TRIESTE, (ITALY).
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My 2007 TRAVEL & MEETING schedule, updated on 10.07.2007, is:
<10/ 10 & 11 Ljubljana SLONANO><10/12&13 Roma (A.Giardini)><10/17- 28
Trip to Princeton, USA><11/12 CBM Workshop (TRS)> <11/20-30 Cape Town,
ICTP Nanoscience College><12/10 Trento>.
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She:"You are not the man I knew ten years ago". Indiana Jones: "It's not
the years honey, it's the mileage" (Raiders of the Lost Ark, scene 25)
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