<div class="gmail_quote">2011/10/23 Dennis May <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennislmay@yahoo.com">dennislmay@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt">When I was undergraduate "80-84" we had about 30%<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. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Other aspects can be considered. In Italy, if you belong to the faculty in a Physics Dept, you have much better chances to get tenure by writing a nice essay on, say, History of Physics Throughout the Centuries, a subject which can be comfortably researched in libraries by delegating 80% of the work to undergraduates, than by engaging in the seek of some elusive breakthrough that may require impossible-to-obtain grants and face the theoretical hostility of the mainstream.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>