"At its best, research in physics and astronomy in the UK is at the very highest level world-wide." That is the verdict of an international panel of physicists set up at the request of the government's Office of Science and Technology to report on the "standing, balance and potential of physics research in the UK". However, the panel also reports that physics in the UK "continues to suffer from a low level of funding [and] is currently in a state of slow recovery from a long period of chronic underfunding."
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