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Nature 392, 217 (19 March 1998) | doi:10.1038/32500
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UK physics 'must focus on breakthroughs'
Ehsan Masood
Physics and astronomy research in Britain should concentrate its resources on areas with the potential to create significant scientific breakthroughs, rather than distributing them more widely, suggests the incoming chief executive of Britain's Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC).Ian Halliday, professor of physics at the University of Wales, Swansea, argues that years of budget cuts mean that scientists tend to opt for the security of well-trodden ideas.
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