<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Stefano Vaj wrote about <span id="lw_1319389066_0" class="yshortcuts"><font color="#0066cc" face="Times New Roman">Tyler Cowen</font></span>'s remarks:</font></div><div> </div><div>> What’s more,
science is losing its luster among the general </div><div>> public for a variety of
reasons, among them the growing </div><div>> gap in income levels between scientists
and those in other, </div><div>> more lucrative fields such as finance.</div><div> </div><div>When I was undergraduate "80-84" we had about 30%</div><div>of our students who had moved from the business school to</div><div>physics, about 30% from engineering to physics, and about</div><div>20% from mathematics to physics. Only a few of us started</div><div>in physics. The few exceptional physicists I have met on</div><div>line in the newer generation have gone from physics to finance</div><div>or physics research teaching at small one-man-show colleges</div><div>where they could control their work. There are real issues</div><div>going on.</div><div> </div><div>Dennis May</div><div> </div></div></body></html>