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Nature 404, 217 (16 March 2000) | doi:10.1038/35005249

German research agency stifles creativity

Quirin Schiermeier & Patrick Weydt

Researchers such as Mark Benecke should be the future of German science. With most of his contemporaries still only just finishing their PhDs, this 29-year-old entomologist at the University of Cologne is already applying for research grants under his own steam.