One of Nobel Prize The awarded bodies warned that academic freedom is threatened in the United States and in other places, with political intervention, risking long-term negative consequences, scientists are preparing for announcements of awarding next week.
Donald Trump introduced or proposed The state of measures in the second period, which are asserted by critics Education Management and scientific research.
Ilva Engstrom, vice-president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards prizes for chemistry, physics and economics, said Trump administrationThe changes were reckless.
“I think that in the short and long term this can have destructive consequences,” she said in an interview with Reuters. “Academic freedom … is one of the pillars of the democratic system.”
A Trump administration He denies the strangulation of academic freedom, saying that its measures will reduce waste and contribute to the scientific innovation of the United States.
Engstrom, which is also a member of the Council of the European Federation of the Academies of Sciences and the Humanities, is not in any of the three committees that will award prizes for chemistry, physics or economics.
The Nobel prizes, which many consider to be the most prestigious scientific awards in the world, should be announced next week, starting with award for medicine or physiology on Monday and ending with the winners presented in the economy in a week.
The awards were created by the rich Swedish inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel, and are also provided for outstanding achievements in the field of physics, chemistry, literature and the world. They are delivered with a prize amount of 11 million Swedish crowns ($ 1.2 million).
Trump said several times that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, although experts say that his chances are very small.
The US President proposed reducing the budget for national healthcare institutions, the world's largest sponsor of biomedical research, and wants to analyze the Ministry of Education in order to reduce the role of the federal government in education in favor of more state control.
His administration also stated that it pays priority to the provision of money grants with programs that are focused on “patriotic education” and demanded that schools limit the international bachelor's enrollment by 15%.
“For research, this will be a big fall in that American scientists can make and what they are allowed to do, what they can publish, that they can get money. So this will have great consequences, ”said Engstrom, who is the chairman of the Committee on Research Policy at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The White House stated in the answer by e -mail that the United States is the largest sponsor of scientific research in the world.
“The target reduction of the administration in order to spend, fraud and abuse both in financing research grants and in VISA programs are going to strengthen the innovative and scientific dominance of the Americans,” the statement said.
Trump is also arguing with several prestigious universities-the teachers can be one of the Nobel Prize laureates in the coming days-threatening to keep federal funds on issues, including the missing protests against the Israeli war in Gascampus diversity and transgender policy.
The American economist of British descent Simon Johnson, who received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2024 for the study of how the institutions influence prosperity, said that Trump’s actions will certainly impede economic growth.
“This policy is absolutely, unambiguously very negatively and especially for creating jobs,” said Johnson, professor of the MIT Sloan School of Management.
“I think that all engineering and scientific types will be affected,” he said. “Life sciences are currently a particularly dynamic sector, and for some reason NIH is aimed at the current massive abbreviations.”
