Stop giving the chemistry prize to people who should be getting it for health and physiology. I’ll have to formulate a more complete rant on this later.
Don’t get me wrong, they deserve a Nobel, and this is very molecular part of biology, but the chemistry prize should be for chemistry. All that being said- congratulations to people who certainly deserve to have their work recognized and rewarded.
But… biology is chemistry. (And, in a way, chemistry is physics.)
The neat boxes we tend to think in are shoehorned into a vast continuum of interrelated problematics. The divisions and labeling are all artificial and not always useful.
Though I admit this one is quite a border case. And there will be more, as chemistry is eating physiology.
Especially for chemistry, but honestly? I think that there should be a stronger priority when it comes to giving it to people who develop new understanding that shape things like synthetic technique. This part is just a careless, unexamined, and unprovable hunch: but if we rewarded chemists more for figuring out how a lot of this stuff works on a more basic and mechanistic level, the benefits to humanity could be substantial.
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