<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Well now, maybe there's a small discussion here after all.  Just what does happen in the Nobel Prize committee when a person's expertise is in biochemistry?  Or physical chemistry?  Or any other borderline science - that is bridging the gap between two sciences.  As for sociology and social psychology, the usual gap is that the former studies people in groups and the latter in individuals, though that is not a clean break.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Are there movements to add prizes?  Say, behavioral biology, which is neither medicine nor physiology.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Dan TheBookMan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class=""><div>On Oct 9, 2017, at 6:09 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">We could have said that Kahneman and Tversky's Nobel was psychology's first prize.  Now Richard Thaler has won it for behavioral economics - in other words, psychology.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Biology is also ripping us off:  now there is behavioral biology.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Well, it's OK.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div></span><div id="m_4656244231811204614AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">If you want to look at that way, maybe Gary Becker beat the three you mention above.<br><br></span><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">   Sample my latest Kindle book "Sand Trap":</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://mybook.to/SandTrap" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank">http://mybook.to/SandTrap</a></font></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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