David Cameron's "Longitude Prize" and Global Mind Share Grassroots Project
On June 14, 2013 British Prime Minister David Cameron promised a £1m “Longitude Prize” for what he called a new "grand innovation challenge”. He encouraged the British nation to be engaged in defining the biggest problems in science and in their lives that need to be resolved, with a multi-million pound prize to help participants do that. The problem or problems has not been identified yet, but British cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin Rees is going to run a committee of...
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