Caltech professors Barry Barrish and Kip Thorne, awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 2017, expressed concern about the state of science funding in the United States:

At MIT and Brandeis University this week, newly minted Nobel Prize winners stressed the key role that federal funding played in their breakthrough scientific research and worried that public taxpayer support for such experimentation is drying up.

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