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My thoughts exactly. Or at the very least, help fundraising with current and former university students. I am sure a lot of them would have had contributed.
by gfarah 8y ago
My thoughts exactly. Or at the very least, help fundraising with current and former university students. I am sure a lot of them would have had contributed.
- tropdrop 8y agoLederman began suffering memory loss in 2011, as the article mentions. Four years later, it is unlikely that he had the energy and capability to launch a crowd-sourced fundraising campaign. Professors aren't really known for their lack of hubris, either... begging students/faculty for money might have seemed to him an activity that would rob him of whatever dignity he had left. In other words, I am not shocked a renowned Nobel Prize-winning physicist refused to ask for help.