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Future of Science Funding
By the year 2002, science funding could be down by 20%. What does this mean for the future of science? In this hour of Science Friday, Ira Flatow will talk to two of this year's Nobel Prize winners, and the director of the National Science Foundation to find out how the cuts might affect science and society as a whole.
Guests:
Neal Lane
Director
National Science Foundation
Arlington, Virginia
Douglas Osheroff
The J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Physics
Stanford University
Winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics
Stanford, California
Richard Smalley
The Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry
Rice University
Winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Houston, Texas
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