There are only three scientists in Congress, but Rush Holt, former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, believes he can become the fourth. He comfortably won the primary to become the Democrat nominee in New Jersey's twelfth district.
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Macilwain, C. A physicist joins the race for Congress. Nature 394, 411 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/28714
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