{"id":676,"date":"2006-10-05T08:43:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T08:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/05\/chemistry-the-overflow-categor\/"},"modified":"2006-10-05T08:43:40","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T08:43:40","slug":"chemistry-the-overflow-categor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/05\/chemistry-the-overflow-categor\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry: The Overflow Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement of a distinctly bio-flavored Nobel Prize in Chemistry has a lot of science-blogging folks either <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/clock\/2006\/10\/chemistry_nobel_is_really_a_bi.php\">gloating<\/a> (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/transcript\/2006\/10\/transcription_wins_chemistry_n.php\">here<\/a>) or <a href=\"http:\/\/pipeline.corante.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/04\/another_chemistry_prize_for_biology.php\">bemoaning<\/a> the use of Chemistry as an overflow category for prizes awarded to work in other disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it must be noted that this is not a new state of affairs. After all, Lord Rutherford, the man famous for saying &#8220;In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting&#8221; won the 1908 Nobel Prize in&#8230; Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>So, there&#8217;s a long and distinguished tradition of chemistry as the overflow category for smart people from other fields. You might even say it&#8217;s the natural state of the field&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Actually, I wouldn&#8217;t really say that&#8211; I mostly agree with the sensible things said in <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/ethicsandscience\/2006\/10\/quick_notes_on_the_2006_nobel.php\">Janet&#8217;s quick post<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pipeline.corante.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/04\/cheer_up_you_chemists.php\">Derek&#8217;s follow-up post<\/a>. But I don&#8217;t want to let such a perfect opportunity to tweak chemists slip past&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement of a distinctly bio-flavored Nobel Prize in Chemistry has a lot of science-blogging folks either gloating (see also here) or bemoaning the use of Chemistry as an overflow category for prizes awarded to work in other disciplines. Of course, it must be noted that this is not a new state of affairs. After&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/05\/chemistry-the-overflow-categor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chemistry: The Overflow Category<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}