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Physicist Hawking ponders move to Canada
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by Barry Artiste | July 16, 2008 at 06:31 am
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One can be sure Physicists in Canada are salivating at the prospect of having their Guru make Canada his home. Grants and Funding will sure to follow once he is in Canada, when he is at the helm of anything he chooses to do.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=656869 Physicist Hawking ponders move to Canada
World-famous figure unhappy with UK funding cuts
The most famous physicist in the world could be moving to Canada to work at a prestigious institute for pure scientific research in Waterloo, Ont.
Dr. Stephen Hawking, the award-winning author of A Brief History of Time, is reportedly considering leaving Britain's Cambridge University, after almost 50 years of ground-breaking work there on theoretical physics, in favour of the Perimeter Institute, founded by the Canadian owners of high-tech firm Research in Motion Ltd.
"There's been a standing invitation for him to come here for some time," said John Matlock, a spokesman for the institute. "But things are kind of heating up on that front lately."
That is because of the recent appointment of Dr. Neil Turok, a long-time associate of the renowned physicist, as executive director of the Perimeter Institute.
"Any stay and timing will be up to Prof. Hawking: an invitation has always been there," said Mr. Matlock. "With the appointment of Dr. Neil Turok ... I'm sure the lines of communication are open. But as I say, any decision to visit will be up to Prof. Hawking."
The Daily Telegraph reported that the 66-year-old scientist is looking seriously at the offer to move to Canada after attacking the British government for cuts to scientific funding he has called "disastrous."
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at 08:16 on July 16th, 2008
We'd be happy to have him here, if I may be so bold as to speak on behalf of an entire country.
at 15:26 on July 16th, 2008
Ohh be bold, a feather in our toque if I may say so.