Oswald is a world class economist -- of course he's aware of what Princeton is! He's probably lectured there!
Keith Hudson At 02:59 13/12/02 -0800, pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (KH) >>One of the most trenchant observers of the increasing confusion is Prof >>Andrew Oswald of Warwick University. The following is an extract from his >>article in the Education Review of The Independent of 12 December. (AO) . . . >>Of the top 100 physicists across the globe, just two now work in Britain. >>Yet Princeton University, a tiny American university in New Jersey, has >>eight. (PV) >I wonder what hole in the ground this guy has been living in. I would >bloody well hope that Princeton had eight of the top physicists. It >is not some generic cypher of a university. It is the home of the >Institute for Advanced Studies, the school that managed to lure >Einstein from Europe, and this "tiny" university has managed >to populate its institute with the best brains in the world ever >since, at least in part due to the prestige imparted to the >positions by the former resident, just as Rutherford was drawn >to Cavendish's position, and Hawking to Newton's. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________
