Kajoli Krishnan

Physicist

Bangalore, India

26 June 2000

 

 

Marc Brodsky (via e-mail)

CEO and Executive Director

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse

College Park, Maryland 20740

 

Dear Dr. Brodsky:

 

Science would not have flourished and evolved beyond Ptolemy if the free spirit of inquiry had been curbed.  It is a pity that an institution that supports and thrives on scientific research and progress should act in a manner so regressive as to fire an employee for his intellectual honesty and expression.  This act reeks of the insecurity that can possess only the intolerant and the orthodox.  One cannot expect it from the American Institute of Physics.  I do hope that AIP will change her mind and take Jeff Schmidt back.

 

Kajoli Krishnan