UK physics hit by swingeing budget cuts

5 Feb 2008 | 09:38 GMT

By INQUIRER staff

PARTICLE PHYSICISTS and astronomers are incandescing over budget cuts which will trim £80 million from their wide-ranging investigations.

The cuts will not only affect research, but hit post-grad British students wanting to enter the world of quarks and quasars.

But professors and students are not going to take this lying down, and are coordinating attempts to pressure the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to reverse the moves.

STFC, which is the funding council, will suffer the £80 million cut which will also affect Rutherford Appleton and Daresbury national labs.

The physicists are going nuclear, here. And there’s facts and figures here. µ

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