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The United States and Australia have done away with this archaic practice. Peter Lawrence says it is time to end mandatory retirement worldwide.

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  1. Peter A. Lawrence (66) is in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. pal@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk,

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In the course of researching this article, the author communicated with more than forty scientists, compiling their thoughts and musings. For more communications and to respond with your own, visit http://tinyurl.com/4mkdvu .

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Lawrence, P. Retiring retirement. Nature 453, 588–590 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453588a

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