Maurice Jacob

US, Europe Reciprocate Scientifically and Financially on LHC, Other Big Science Projects

The reciprocal USA and European financial support and scientific usage of the Large Hadron Collider, Hubble Space Telescope and Space Station facilities are discussed. (AIP) {copyright} {ital 1997 American Institute of Physics.}

Science Funding in the Former Soviet Union Needs the Bottom‐Up Approach

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union have greatly changed the structure of the world. We should all be thankful that the confrontation between West and East, which reached dire heights during the long cold war, could be resolved peacefully. For Eastern scientists however, the difficult transition currently faced by the countries of the former Soviet bloc raises enormous funding and adaptability problems. The very survival of brilliant scientific schools in the former Soviet Union (FSU) is at stake.