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posted by janrinok on Saturday October 29 2016, @04:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the under-pressure dept.

From Science Alert:

On the eve of receiving his 2013 Nobel Prize, famed physicist Peter Higgs told The Guardian that he wouldn't be productive enough to get a job in today's academic system, where researchers are expected to constantly pump out research.

Higgs, 87, said he has never sent an email or made a mobile phone call, and published less than 10 papers after his groundbreaking 1964 prediction of the Higgs boson, which outlined how the Universe got its mass.

"It's difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964," Higgs told Decca Aitkenhead.

Now a new survey of young researchers by Nature suggests that things have only gotten worse since Higgs' comments, with researchers today under even more pressure with less resources, and less job stability.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @05:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @05:37PM (#420173)

    What!? She actually held people on government pay to some objective measure of responsibility? SHOCKING! I can see why all you genius types hated her so much.

  • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Saturday October 29 2016, @10:46PM

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Saturday October 29 2016, @10:46PM (#420311)

    What!? She actually held people on government pay to some subjective measure of responsibility? SHOCKING! I can see why all you genius types hated her so much.

    FTFY.

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