Published in Physics World, 1 Apr 2010
One of South Africa’s top astronomers, Phil Charles, has been reinstated as director of the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) having been cleared of sharing confidential information with “outsiders”. Charles had been suspended last month by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa for “leaking” parts of “confidential foundation documents”. Physics World has learned that these documents concerned proposals to restructure the management of national facilities such as the SAAO, and plans for the site of the operations centre for the forthcoming MeerKAT radio telescope. […]
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