FREE ELECTRON LASER:
Physicist Sues Duke Over Control of Lab
Eliot Marshall
A federal court in North Carolina may soon have to answer a question that has vexed more than one big science project: Who calls the shots if the person who conceived the project has a falling-out with the university that oversees it? That issue has come up this fall at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where a scientist has sued to retain control of the Medical Free Electron Laser laboratory, a project that has received more than $40 million in federal funds.