On 2011-11-17 01:32, Mary Yugo wrote:
Google translate is difficult -- maybe we have an Italian speaker here?
Stremmenos is perplexed at the matters regarding the contract signed
between EFA and the University of Bologna, and the pressure the
University is receiving from many to rescind from it.
He says that being at the University of Bologna since the '50s, he was
taught that the main duty of the University should be to transmit
current knowledge and to create new one.
He doesn't think that a lack of (little) funds should stop the
University to do research on a matter of this scope and he is
disappointed to find out that that bureaucracy and trivial economic
matters prevail over its original duties (of transmitting knowledge and
creating new one).
He then points to a 12 years old article written by him on the official
journal of the Italian Chemical Society, describing early Ni-H
experiments, hoping that the pressure and skepticism he and his group
received from their peers (and supposedly slowed the research?) won't
show again.
* * *
So yes, it appears to me he is upset at the U of Bologna.
By the way, Stremmenos writes in difficult Italian, even for native
speakers.
Cheers,
S.A.
