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Nature 455, 592 (2 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/455592a; Published online 1 October 2008
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UK physics gets a health check
See associated Correspondence: Fabian, Nature 455, 861 (October 2008)
Bill Wakeham1
- Bill Wakeham is chair of the Research Councils UK Review of Physics. He is a member of the Council of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
Email: vice-chancellor@soton.ac.uk
Abstract
The field is healthy, says Bill Wakeham, but scientists need to reclaim the intellectual ownership of research at the margins of the discipline such as medical or atmospheric physics.
Physics research funding in the United Kingdom has been under the spotlight in the past year. In 2007, a restructuring of the research councils and a government budget settlement were perceived by the community as being unfavourable to the discipline.
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