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Takaaki Kajita, president of the Science Council of Japan, right, delivers a statement demanding membership to six scholars to Shinji Inoue, the state minister in charge of science and technology policy, on April 22 in Tokyo. (Rintaro Sakurai)
The government stood by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s rejections of six scholars to the Science Council of Japan after the body on April 22 adopted a statement demanding he retract that decision.
The council submitted the statement, which calls for the immediate appointments of the six, to Shinji Inoue, the state minister in charge of science and technology policy.
But Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said at a news conference the same day that Suga had made “the final decision” and the “entire process was over.”
Nobel Prize winner says Laurentian s physics program cut means losing great minds, research funds
Laurentian s decision to cut the physics department will severely impact the university s research funding, as it loses some of the greatest minds in science, says astrophysicist Art McDonald, who teamed with some of the faculty members now losing their jobs to win the Nobel Prize in 2015.
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Posted: Apr 23, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 23
Art McDonald, a Nobel-winning Canadian physicist and former director at the underground science laboratory known as SNOLAB, says the cuts to Laurentian s physics program mean the Sudbury, Ont., university will no longer be able to take part in major astrophysics work.(Stu Mills/CBC)
The Science Council of Japan met in Tokyo’s Minato Ward on April 21. (Kazuhiro Nagashima)
The Science Council of Japan is to issue a statement calling on Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to end his months-long refusal to explain his decision to block the appointments of six scholars to the body.
Takaaki Kajita, the council s president, said April 21 the statement would also call on Suga to put things right as he is the only individual empowered to do so.
The draft statement states in part: “As the person who has the responsibility for appointed members of the council, he has not provided a formal response nor any explanation to the council” since the row flared last year.
LIGO and Virgo to Receive IEEE Milestone Plaques February 01, 2021
On February 3, 2021, the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers) will host an online event to bestow its Milestone award to the gravitational-wave observatories of LIGO and Virgo. The IEEE Milestone awards recognize technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity found in unique products, services, seminal papers and patents, according to the IEEE website. More than 160 IEEE Milestones have been awarded to a range of projects, including historical breakthroughs such as Benjamin Franklin s work on electricity and the electrical telegraph.
LIGO and Virgo are being honored for their gravitational-wave antennas, which made the first direct detections of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time that were predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.