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Since the times of Newton, science has always been funded by governments. Funding agencies are as much part of the real-world scientific process as The Hypothes
by drjesusphd 10y ago
Since the times of Newton, science has always been funded by governments. Funding agencies are as much part of the real-world scientific process as The Hypothesis.
- WalterBright 10y agoNot exclusively. Einstein wasn't.
- drjesusphd 10y agoHe was a government employee in 1905 when he published special relativity, Brownian motion, and the photoelectric effect. This work was done while he was a student studying under a government-funded scientist. He was a full professor by the time he released general relativity.
- WalterBright 10y agoHe was a patent examiner. Not a government funded researcher.