Trump casts shadow over Nobels as prize-awarding body warns academic freedom at risk
By Johan Ahlander
Stockholm (Reuters) -Gel will be ready for the Nobel Prize announcements, a prize -winning organ, in the United States and elsewhere, warns that academic freedom is threatened by risking long -term negative effects of political intervention.
US President Donald Trump presented or proposed measures that critics claim to prevent education and scientific research in the second period.
Ylva Engstrom, the Vice President of the Royal Swedish Sciences Academy, who rewarded the chemistry, physics and economic awards, said that the changes of the Trump administration were reckless.
‘Democratic System Column’
“I think it may have devastating effects in both short and long term,” Reuters said in an interview. He said. “Academic freedom … One of the columns of the democratic system.”
The Trump administration refuses to drown academic freedom by saying that its measures will reduce waste and encourage us to encourage scientific innovation.
At the same time, Engstrom, a member of the Board of Directors of the Federation of the European Science and Human Sciences Academies, is not in any of the three committees that will give chemistry, physics or economic awards.
The Nobel Awards, which are accepted as the most prestigious science awards in the world by many, will start with the medical or physiology award on Monday and end with the opening of the winners in the economy a week later.
The awards were created by the rich Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and also distributed for extraordinary achievements in the field of physics, chemistry, literature and peace. 11 million Swedish crowns ($ 1.2 million) come with the award.
Trump said he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize several times, but experts say his chances are very weak.
Budget Discounts and ‘Patriotic Education’ Priorization
Trump proposed to reduce the budget for the national health institutes, the world’s largest biomedical research finance, and wants to dismantle the Ministry of Education to reduce the role of the federal government in favor of more control by states.
The management also said that he would give grant money to the programs that focus on “patriotic training” and ask schools to limit international license records by 15%.
“For the research, for the research, American scientists can do and what they can publish, what they can receive for what they can receive. So will have great impacts.” He said.
The White House said that the US is the largest scientific research in the world in a response to E -mail.
“The aim of the administration, both the research grant fund and visa programs aimed at waste, fraud and abuse will strengthen the innovative and scientific dominance of the Americans.” He said.
Nobel Laureate warns about dragging on economic growth
Trump is also struggling with a few prestigious universities that may be among the winners of the faculties in the coming days – Israel’s Gaza’s Gaza, campus diversity and their transsexual policies threaten to prevent federal funds, including pro -Palestinian protests, including pro -Palestinian protests.
Simon Johnson, a British -born American economist, who won the Nobel Economic Sciences Award in 2024 for his efforts on how institutions affected welfare in 2024, said that they would definitely prevent economic growth to explain how Trump’s actions would affect academic freedom.
“These policies are certainly very negative and especially for creating business,” Johnson said, ” He said.
“I think all engineering and science -type activities will be affected,” he said. “Life sciences are currently a dynamic sector and nih, for whatever reason, it is targeted with really large segments.”
The Nobel Foundation, which controls Nobel’s will and heritage, said that the foundation had difficulties in academic freedom as it was in 124 and “holding a careful eye”.
“We are protecting information,” said Hanna Stjarne, the President of the Foundation. “We protect … Freedom, the opportunity of researchers freely, the authors to write exactly as they wish, and the opportunity to take peace initiatives in all kinds of conflict all over the world.”
(Reporting by Johan Ahlander; Editing by Niklas Pollard and Alex Richardson)
