As you may know Obama
has filled the top two science positions in his administration, and both are going to be physicists!!! :) :
- Secretary of Energy: Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize winning physicist.
- Presidential Science Advisor: John Holdren, big name physicist on energy and climate change.
I hope what this means the future will be bright for physics. True these guys have careers centered in energy and environmental issues; still, they are physicists and I am sure they will be kinder to supporting all physics research then non-physicists would be.
Now, my advise to Obama is to have a co-science advisor, and pick a theoretical physicist. :)
