Stephen Hawking
The renowned cosmologist Stephen
Hawking was among 150 academics to declare support for Britain to remain in the
European Union on Thursday in a letter that said leaving the bloc would harm
science and research.
"For UK out of the EU and
there is a loss of freedom of movement of scientists between the UK and Europe,
will be a disaster for science and universities in the UK," the academics
wrote in a letter to The Times.
The more than 150 signatories are
scientists from Cambridge, mathematicians, engineers and economists and also
from fellow of the Royal Society, Britain's leading scientific institution.
Other signatories include Martin
Rees, Astronomer Royal and former president of the Royal Society, Cambridge
University physicist Athene Donald, and organizer Alan Fersht letter, a
chemical that leads.
Britain is expected to vote on
June 23 on whether to remain in the 28-member bloc. Opinion polls shows the
campaign to remain within the EU is slightly more, but its advantage over the
campaign "out" has been reduced in recent months.
In the letter, the scientists
argued science was vital for long-term prosperity of Britain and the EU membership
has increased funding for science and enabled the country to recruit talented
researchers from continental Europe.
"Investment in science and security
of the United Kingdom as investment in infrastructure projects, agriculture or
manufacturing is so important to the prosperity and the free movement of
scientists is so important to science as free trade is for the market economy,
"they wrote.
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