I reckon all fair dinkum scientists are students.
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Ah, but was it science or was it technology? Albert and his mates had done the science bit before the famous letter was sent. After that it was a matter of taking the theory and using it to produce a functional nuclear weapon.
Lots of techniques were developed and refined, but thats technology, not science.
As a technician one of the things I used to do was listen to a scientist rattle on about some new idea and build him or her a device that would demonstrate it.
Come on now, they gave Ybuttar Arafat the Nobel Peace Prize FFS. The Nobel Committees are about as political as it gets.
ROTFL! I actually "met" Mark Addinall online when I took him to task for using "f***ing" in the breastle line about ten years ago. I was trying to get some well known federal politicians to take the Internet seriously at the time and his colloquialisms weren't helping. The wheel turns!
Tie the Vice Chancellor's salary to the amount of extra private funding and sponsorship the Uni receives each year and watch things change.
-- DM personal opinion only