Number 202 (Story #3), November 9, 1994 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SSC STAFF? A year after Congress shut down the nascent supercollider, the number of scientists and technicians on the staff has dropped from 1100 to less than 100. About a fourth are jobless. Some have returned to academe. Former SSC director Roy Schwitters is now a physics professor at the University of Texas. About half of those who have found jobs are working outside particle physics. Some examples: Cas Milner, who had worked on the Gamma-Electron-Muon (GEM) detector at the SSC, now works at the TIAA-CREF pension fund. Kate Morgan (also formerly with GEM) moved on to Citicorp. (Science, 28 October 1994.)
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