Austrian Physicists Protest at CERN Pull-Out

This isn't surprising at all and highly expected. As reported earlier, Austria has decided to pull out of CERN. The timing is especially ridiculously awful as, after working for so long on the LHC and contributing to the laboratory, the LHC is about to start up and a whole new frontier of high energy physics is about to be opened.

So it is understandable that Austrian physicists would strongly protest against the pull-out.

Researchers in Austria have started an online petition in protest at the country’s decision to withdraw from the CERN particle physics lab. So far over 1500 people have signed the petition, which will be sent to Johannes Hahn, the Austrian science minister, who announced on Thursday that the country would cut its funding for CERN worth around €20m per year.

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