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UK prime minister promises to increase science investment

MAR 01, 2009
Physics Today

New Scientist : The British prime minister, Gordon Brown, has promised to invest record amounts of money into basic and applied science to supply the jobs of tomorrow.

“We will invest more than at any time in our country’s history to make the next decade a decade where British scientific genius can create the low-carbon, high-skill, digital economy that we need,” said Brown, speaking at the University of Oxford.

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