It was a good week for the University of California. Three Nobel Prizes in three days. And while there was much celebration, there were also warnings that the removal of public funding for research could be an obstacle for the United States back on the scientific world stage.

At UC Berkeley on Tuesday, it was physics professor John Clark's turn, although he admitted he didn't really believe it when he got the call from Sweden.

"I wasn't quite sure at the beginning whether or not this was a junk call," he said. "But it soon became clear that it was real. And I was just sitting there feeling completely stunned. It never occurred to me in my entire life that anything like this would happen."

Clark moved from the UK in the 1960s to begin teaching at Cal. He worked with an international

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