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Nature 402, 8 (4 November 1999) | doi:10.1038/46877
French scientists resign from Allègre's advisory council
Heather McCabe
Two prominent French scientists have resigned from the National Science Council (CNS), a special advisory panel created by the science minister, arguing that it is consulted on major decisions only after they have already been taken by the ministry.In a move seen as a direct criticism of the leadership style of science minister Claude Allègre, mathematician Yves Meyer and Nobel-prizewinning physicist Claude Cohen-Tannoudji delivered their letters of resignation to Allègre and the prime minister, Lionel Jospin, on 14 October.
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