Nobel scientists make Brexit plea for free movement and funding

29 Nobel Laureates and six winners of the prestigious Fields medal from the United Kingdom and other European countries jointly sent a letter to Theresa May and Jean-Claude-Juncker on the 22 October 2018 pleading for a deal on Brexit to avoid damaging British and European research. They warned that any barriers to research collaboration in the EU would be to the detriment of all.

Funding and freedom of movement were the two big concerns.

Separately, an internal survey of more than 1,000 scientists at the Francis Crick Institute in London, the biggest biomedical research laboratory under one roof in Europe, showed that 97% said Brexit would be 'bad for UK science'.

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