WASHINGTON — Congress’s one PhD-trained scientist is planning to join the march on Washington on April 22 — “not as a Democratic member of Congress, but as a scientist.”
Thousands of scientists and science advocates are expected to participate in the March for Science, and Congressman Bill Foster of Illinois, a Democrat and physicist, will join them. He’s even planning to return three days early from a congressional recess to attend.
But as to whether he views his participation as a rebuke to the president, Foster said, “The march itself is nonpartisan. It is in support of science, and I think that it’s an important distinction to be drawn.”
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In reply to the comment about his PhD, wiki gives it as: The title of his doctoral dissertation is “An experimental limit on proton decay: {\displaystyle p\rightarrow e+\pi ^{0}} p\rightarrow e+\pi ^{0}”
It didn’t copy properly. But nuclear physics, I guess
Would have been interesting to know what specialization his PhD was in.