Interdisciplinary science

Roy, R. (1977) Interdisciplinary Science on Campus - the Elusive Dream, Chemical Engineering News, August. 

Haber worried about his career. When he was passed over for a promotion, he suspected that his Jewish background was the reason. As a Jewish friend sardonically joked, Before 35 I was too young for a professorship, after 45 I was too old, and in-between I was a Jew. Professional jealousy may have played a role as well. Haber s enthusiasm for interdisciplinary science often swept him into the bailiwicks of rival professors. Wilhelm Ost-wald, the scientist who had refused Haber s applications for study, warned him, Achievements generated at a greater than the customary rate raise instinctive opposition amongst one s colleagues. Privately, Ostwald complained that Haber emptied a large pail of facts over our heads far too fast. 

Proteomics is an interdisciplinary science that includes biology, bioinformatics, and protein chemistry. The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with an overview of the types of questions being addressed in proteomics studies and the technologies used to address those questions. The first chapter is a concise outline of the field as it presently stands. The second chapter provides an overview of the use of 2D-gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry to identify proteins, as well as post-translational... 

J.L. Bada, Racemization of Amino Acids in Nature, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 7(1), 30 46 (1982). 

Hegde, K.T.M. (1989). Zinc and brass production in Ancient India. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 14 86-96. 

This chapter has presented an insight with some key literature about the elucidation of natural products for applications as biomarkers and molecular tracers for numerous environmental and geological processes. Natural product biomarker elucidation and analysis has been illustrated with various examples to clarify the concepts, applications, and procedures. The number of novel compounds, as well as the application of natural products as biomarker tracers, is expected to increase, especially with the use of mass spectrometry methods in the contemporary interdisciplinary sciences. 

The interaction of light and molecules is covered by a rather complex interdisciplinary science which includes the fields of photophysics, molecular spectroscopy, physical organic chemistry, and many others. In the simplest way, it can be divided into two separate topics, one being p/zofop/zyszcs of organic compounds, and the other photochemistry of organic compounds. 

Banchoff, T. (1990) From Flatland to Hypergraphics. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 15 364-72. 

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Dietz, M. L., Recent progress in the development of extraction chromatographic methods for radionuclide separation and preconcentration. In Radioanalytical Methods at the Frontier of Interdisciplinary Science, eds. C. Laue and K. Nash, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2004, pp. 161-176. 

Drexler was born in Oakland, California, on April 25, 1955. He grew up in Lafayette, Indiana New Haven, Connecticut Cincinnati, Ohio Denver, Colorado and Monmouth, Oregon. In 1973, he began studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), from which he eventually earned his bachelor of science degree in interdisciplinary science in 1977. 

Polymer Science From Organic Chemistry to an Interdisciplinary Science... 

U.S. law defines a drug as any substance, other than a food or device, either (1) intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, relief, treatment, or prevention of disease or (2) intended to affect the structure or function of the body. The mission of pharmaceutical scientists is to continue developing safer and more effective new dmgs to conquer various human diseases. However, successfully developing new medicines for patients requires significant collaboration of many interdisciplinary sciences, including ... 

The bottom line, and the finale for this book, is that the world needs to fund more interdisciplinary science, at the same time as figuring out how to deal with the perceived consequences of all we have done and all we invent. 

Dose, K. (1988) The Origin of Life More Questions than Answers, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 13,348. 

Editor s comment This article is taken in large part from a review article published more than twenty years ago in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp 134-147 (1978). It tells the story of the discovery of cisplatin and reflects on its possible mode of action as an antitumor agent. While some of the ideas may have been revised or discarded today, the article represents a unique personal account of the discovery and at the same time is a beautiful example of science history. The chapter on the clinical results has been deleted, since the present status is covered in an up-to-date manner in this book s contribution by O Dwyer and co-workers. The editor wishes to thank John Wiley Sons Limited for permission to reproduce this work. 

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