The Public Cost of Private Science
When science shares freely, industry—much more than the public—reaps the rewards. The post The Public Cost of Private Science appeared first on Nautilus.
adium is an element,” the chemist Marie Curie once told an interviewer. “It belongs to the people.” This was ironic since in that same interview, Curie—the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the first person to win it twice—explained that she didn’t have the funding to continue her work on radium. “I need a gram of radium to continue my researches,” she , “but I cannot buy it. Radium is too
