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Keeping up with the Russians

Nature volume 342, pages 731–732 (1989)Cite this article

The United States and Britain have a lot to learn from the Soviet way of doing science — not least from the system of allocating research funds.

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  1. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218, USA

    George W. Fisher

  2. Minnesota Geological Survey, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, 55114, USA

    Priscilla C. Grew

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

    Bruce Yardley

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Fisher, G., Grew, P. & Yardley, B. Keeping up with the Russians. Nature 342, 731–732 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/342731a0

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