By nature.com Communities Team on 30 Apr 2010
Blogs Bob O’Hara takes exception to comments by Sir Paul Nurse, the British scientist hotly tipped as the next President of the Royal Society. Nurse suggested that funders identify the top 150 or so scientists who are ‘moving things significantly forward’, and automatically giving them generous long-term funding. Bob finds some merit in the idea, but has a number of reservations: The second problem is that for Nurse’s idea to work, we have to be able to identify the people who will make those Big Leaps. My worry is not that some of the 150 Worthies may not make advances, … Read more
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