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Pots of gold await top British scientists who return to their homeland from
lucrative jobs abroad. “What we want is a brain gain,” says British science
minister David Sainsbury, who launched the £4 million repatriation
initiative last week as part of a government White Paper on science. Funded in
partnership with the Wolfson Foundation charity and the Royal Society, the
scheme aims to attract back at least fifty world-class researchers who have
abandoned dilapidated British labs for better pay and conditions elsewhere.
Suitably eminent prodigal sons and daughters will have their salaries topped up
to as much as £100 000…