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Austrian government attempts to close physics institute to save money

NOV 23, 2010
Physics Today
Nature : The world-renowned Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna has been rescued from imminent closure after more than 200 international researchers—including Nobel Prize winners and recipients of the Fields Medal—wrote letters of support to the Austrian government, writes Alison Abbott for Nature. But the fate of more than 70 other non-university academic institutes in Austria, most of them in the social sciences and humanities, remains uncertain. The Austrian government made the decisions in order to save money and informed the institutes only at the beginning of November.
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