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A billionaire cryptocurrency entrepreneur pardoned by President Donald Trump after breaking US bank secrecy law has pledged up to £20mn to a private London institute that aims to become a world-class theoretical maths and physics research centre.
Ben Delo has made an initial donation of £10mn plus a promise for a further £10mn in matched funding towards the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences’ (Lims) goal of securing a £60mn endowment.
Lims is pushing to attract top international researchers as US scientists battle public funding cuts and UK physicists fight government plans to curb research…
