
29th June 2016 in Business
Counting the cost of Brexit for science
By Will Goodbody, Science & Technology Correspondent “It’s a disaster”. That was Nobel Prize winning physicist Peter Higgs’ response when I asked him for his reaction to the result of the Brexit referendum, just hours after it was delivered last Friday. And he wasn’t alone in his views. Indeed a few weeks earlier, Professor Higgs had been among 13 Nobel Prize winning scientists who had warned losing EU funding of science would put British research “in jeopardy”. “Inside the EU, …