To the Prime Minister and the Chair of Parliament of Bulgaria
Gentlemen,
we have been informed about the severe situation of the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the fund cuts that have been
proposed.
As members of a many years lasting international collaboration with
some scientists of the BAS, we had the opportunity to profit of their
expertise and to esteem and value the scientific knowledge of our
colleagues from Sofia, whose work, beside being well recognized
worldwide, has been and still is vital for the success of our
experiments and the education of young students.
We had also the opportunity to see how deep is their commitment to
research and teaching and, despite all the difficulties, how great are
the results they have achieved.
For all these reasons and also because of the personal relationships
we have estabilished since the beginning of our common work, we are
seriously concerned about the funds cuts and the political
reorganization of the Academy your Government is going to approve: any
limitation or reduction to the Academy funding or freedom is a wound
for the Bulgarian culture and for Bulgarian citizens and their hope to
resist to this international economic crisis, but it will be also a
dramatic damage for European science...
Will be you to be remembered as the ones who destroyed such Bulgarian treasure?
Please, stop financial cuts to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences!
Silvia Gozzini
Senior Researcher
Head of the Nonlinear Optics Laboratory
National Institute of Optics - UOS PISA
National Council of Research
Alessandro Lucchesini
Researcher
Head of the Diode laser Spectroscopy Laboratory
National Institute of Optics - UOS PISA
National Council of Research
Carlo Gabbanini
Senior Researcher
Head of the Laser Cooling Laboratory
National Institute of Optics - UOS PISA
National Council of Research
Luca Marmugi
PhD Student
University of Siena&
National Institute of Optics - UOS PISA
http://lonl.pisa.ino.it/index.html