Reference News, October 8 report - According to AFP, October 8 report, John Clarke, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics winner, criticized US President Trump's actions to reshape the American scientific landscape on October 7, calling them "a very serious issue."
The report said that since January of this year, when the US president returned to the White House, his science policy has specifically manifested as significant cuts in research funding and the dismissal of scientists from federal agencies.
"This will lead to a large part of the US research work being paralyzed," Clarke told AFP reporters, adding that some of his colleagues have already experienced significant reductions in funding.
This scholar, born in 1942 in the UK, shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physics with two other scientists for their discoveries in quantum mechanics. He emphasized that about 40 years ago, their pioneering research was made possible by sufficient funding.
"If this continues, the consequences will be unimaginable," warned Clarke, who is a retired professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Clarke said: "Even after the current administration ends, we may need ten years to recover to the level of six months ago." He pointed out that this is a "huge problem" and a "absurd situation that no scientist can understand."
The report stated that Mary Blenk, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner and an American scientist, also emphasized the importance of public funding for scientific research.
Several members of the Nobel Prize Committee told AFP that Trump's attacks on the scientific community could cause the United States to lose its global leadership in scientific research and have an impact worldwide. (Translated by Zhao Ke Xin)
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