Petit vent de révolte à Cambridge autour d’une chaire trop richement dotée. #recherche #hawking
Le salaire serait deux fois plus élevé que la normale.
Cambridge physicists divided over Hawking chair - physicsworld.com
▻http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2014/mar/12/cambridge-physicists-divided-over-hawking-chair
A new chair designed to lure the world’s brightest minds in cosmology to the University of Cambridge has generated a heated debate among physicists at the institution. Supporters of the Stephen W Hawking Professorship, set up in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), say that the $6m (£3.6m) that accompanies the new position will allow the university to compete with the richest US institutions when hiring top scientists. Critics, however, argue that in agreeing to an unusual set of conditions attached to the donation, the university has placed financial gain ahead of meritocracy and has undermined its independence.