霍金不满英国削减科研经费 威胁移居加拿大
中新网3月3日电 据外电2日报道，由于对英国government削减大学科研经费的强烈不满，世界著名物理学家史蒂夫·霍金计划离开已经生活近50年的剑桥大学，移居加拿大。据悉，英国官方为削减government年度预算，计划在未来三年将投入到高等教育的科研经费缩减100亿英镑。这项决议引发了这位世界最著名物理学家的强烈不满，霍金称这将扼杀许多潜在的科学发现。
现年68岁的霍金对世界物理理论研究做出了巨大的贡献，他说科研经费的减少意味着英国的大学将把更多的精力放在工业应用研究上，而不是去对知识的探索和追寻。
霍金已表示，如果情况得不到改变，他将选择移居加拿大，在那里将有一个专门的研究所供霍金开展科研工作。
有媒体分析称，如果霍金选择离开工作生活了近50年的校园，那么对于剑桥大学和整个英国的学术研究来说无疑是个巨大的损失。
(本文来源：中国新闻网 )
http://news.163.com/10/0303/11/60RJTTGK000146BD.html 尚未寻找原始来源确认消息。 前几天还听说霍金死了··· 个人支持霍金。长远来讲，似乎是不应该削减，但是治理国家的人，要考虑的其它因素非常多，假如他们认为今年需要重点发展其它某个方面、稍微倾斜一下，对科研影响又不太大，那么这样做之后以后逐年进行调整，说不定又进行追加之类...... 帮LZ找了个来源~
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254945/Stephen-Hawking-plans-leave-Britain-Government-cuts-science.html
Stephen Hawking plans 'to leave Britain over Government cuts in science'
By Kate Loveys
Last updated at 12:43 AM on 03rd March 2010
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Professor Stephen Hawking is planning to abandon Cambridge University after nearly 50 years and move to Canada in protest at Government cuts.
The world's most famous physicist has become frustrated with falling university budgets, which he believes are scuppering scientific discoveries.
The departure of Professor Hawking, who began work in Cambridge in 1962, would be a massive blow to the university and to British scholarship.
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Famed: Professor Stephen Hawking, best-selling author of A Brief History Of Time, believes falling university budgets are scuppering scientific discoveries
The 68-year-old - who has made key advances in theoretical physics while almost completely paralysed by motor neurone disease - said restrictions in grants mean scientific research in Britain is increasingly focused on its industrial application rather than the pursuit of knowledge and discovery.
The best-selling author of A Brief History Of Time is to spend two months at the Perimeter Institute, in Ontario, this summer and, if all goes to plan, hopes to make the move permanent.
Yesterday his spokesman said Professor Hawking 'remained heavily critical of the Government's policy on science funding', saying it risked ending Britain's history of world-class thinkers.
In an attempt to reduce the Government's deficit, cuts to higher education amounting to roughly £1billion over three years have been announced.
His graduate assistant Sam Blackburn said: 'Professor Hawking is considering a move but it would depend on whether his trip to the institute is successful.'
However, a move abroad would present Professor Hawking with difficulties as his disability means he requires an entourage including carers and a graduate assistant to operate his voice synthesiser.
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New move? Prof Hawking will spend two months at the Perimeter Institute in Ontario this summer
And he would leave behind his adapted home and members of his family from his first marriage to Jane Hawking, with whom he was reconciled in 2007 after a divorce from second wife Elaine Mason.
Professor Hawking would follow his former colleague Neil Turok, an authority on mathematical physics, who left for the institute in 2008.
Professor Turok has said the 'door is open' for Professor Hawking to join him permanently and has stated that the physicist's summer visit 'is the first of many'.
In contrast to Cambridge, the Perimeter Institute - set up seven years ago by Mike Lazaridis, the creator of the BlackBerry handheld device - has raised substantial funding from private donations.
It is ironic that Professor Hawking would leave Cambridge, which has arguably done more to advance the understanding of science than any university in the world.
It is where Charles Darwin formulated the theory of evolution and Francis Crick and James Watson identified the structure of DNA.
Professor Hawking's distant predecessor as its Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Sir Isaac Newton, founded modern science with his laws of motion and gravity.
A spokesman for Cambridge University, said: 'Professor Hawking has no plans to leave Cambridge at present. However, he will be a regular visitor to the Perimeter Institute for research purposes.' 科学家的苦恼啊
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