Could Harvard’s next president be a scientist?

The Globe is reporting today 9 more candidates for Harvard’s top job and they’re mostly scientists: Eric Lander, co-founder of the Broad Institute, Harold Varmus, who used to lead the NIH and is now the head of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York city, Steven Chu, Nobel Laureate and Thomas Cech, head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. It seems no scientist is too big and famous to be considered for the presidency of Harvard!

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