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Nature 416, 123 (14 March 2002) | doi:10.1038/416123b

Open Innovation Challenges

Favouritism in physics?

Federico Rosei1

  1. Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Århus, 8000 C Århus, Denmark

In his Correspondence (Nature 415, 472; 2002), a response to your Opinion article (Nature 414, 829; 2001), L. Maiani states that, in comparing CERN with DESY, "you fail to take into account the significant cost-of-living differentials between Geneva and most other European locations".