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The problem is they needed academics to show them what to do.
by admissionsguy 3y ago
The problem is they needed academics to show them what to do.
- adverbly 3y agoThat's not entirely accurate. For my understanding, it is a private institution which employed the individuals who made the discovery. Some of whom have alternative backgrounds in academia, and some of whom have it in industry.
- sashank_1509 3y agoThe story goes, some professor had a theory in 1999 that was rejected by the mainstream regarding creating superconductors. He passed away and as a dying wish asked his students to continue the research work and develop a theory for why it works. The students unable to get “academic” funding set up a company and got funding from industry to do their research in 2017 and the rest is history. It’s very hard to redeem academia in this example.
- kome 3y agoit's kinda false: https://hackmd.io/@lifthrasiir/lk-99-prehistory https://hackmd.io/@lifthrasiir/lk-99-prehistory people were working on it since soviet times, in academia. And those people influenced other people. Also in academia. It's a slow moving process, but it works.