Chemistry Agonistes
Sunday, October 15th, 2006The 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Roger Kornberg for eukaryotic transcription, something that most people would regard as biology. This touched off some agonizing about the Meaning of it All at Uncertain Principles, In the Pipeline, and Adventures in Ethics and Science. Paul Bracher even went so far as to suggest that chemists move in on the physics prize.
Hey, at least they have a prize.