President Bush has chosen his new science advisor, John H. Marburger III, a
physicist specialising in optics and lasers. Marburger, who heads the Brookhaven
National Laboratory near New York, will have to win the Senate’s approval before
taking up his new post. An urgent first task will be to build bridges between
the administration and America’s scientists, who have been angered by Bush’s
statements on subjects like climate change. “I think this is going to be very
well received,” former science adviser Neal Lane, now a professor at Rice
University, told MSNBC.com. “I have the highest regard for Jack Marburger.”…
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