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US president-elect Joe Biden set to put science centre stage

26 Nov 2020
Taken from the December 2020 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "'Delight' as Biden elected US president".

Physicists welcome the election of Joe Biden as US president but he faces challenges to unite a divided Congress, as Peter Gwynne reports

Joe Biden
A new era beckons Joe Biden – shown here with vice-president elect Kamala Harris – will have many science-related issues to contend with when he becomes the 46th US president on 20 January. (Courtesy: Andrew Harnik/AP/Shutterstock)
One of Joe Biden’s first moves as he became US president-elect earlier this month was to appoint a

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