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Austria to quit CERN -- Fallout From Economic Crisis
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by Barbara McPherson | May 8, 2009 at 08:21 am
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Austrian officials have announced that they will be withdrawing funding for their share of the Large Hadron Collider(LHC). Austria has been part of the cooperative of nations supporting the particle accelerator since 1959 but cites the economic crisis as the basis for withdrawing.
Austrian ministry of science spokesperson, Nikola Donig, explained that while government funding for science has increased, private funding has decreased and that the 17 million euros spent on CERN will have to be redirected.
Austria has announced that it will withdraw from CERN, Europe's premier high-energy physics laboratory, which is located near Geneva, Switzerland. The announcement — just months before the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator — has left Austrian physicists stunned.
"It is a black day for Austrian science," says Christian Fabjan, who heads the Institute for High Energy Physics at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
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at 10:43 on May 8th, 2009
That's too bad - it really is affecting everyone.
at 09:34 on May 10th, 2009
CERN's mistake was to give www for free to the world. Today Austria, or its citizens, would be contributing to CERN a total amount far in excess of the ridiculously small 17 million euros.
at 09:35 on May 10th, 2009
CERN's mistake was to give www for free to the world. Today Austria, or its citizens, would be contributing to CERN a total amount far in excess of the ridiculously small 17 million euros.