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