[ExI] nobel prize

[William Flynn Wallace]

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.

Are there movements to add prizes?  Say, behavioral biology, which is
neither medicine nor physiology.

bill w

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Oct 9, 2017, at 6:09 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Biology is also ripping us off:  now there is behavioral biology.
>
> Well, it's OK.
>
>
> If you want to look at that way, maybe Gary Becker beat the three you
> mention above.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>    Sample my latest Kindle book "Sand Trap":
> http://mybook.to/SandTrap
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20171009/c9567a9a/attachment.html>