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Natural Science Forum / Biology / Biology / December 2004Emerging of New Scientific Fields (example: biochemnestry)
"When can we speak of a new field? When does the era of a specialism (of the mother-science) end? When a new field is born?" Dear readers, I am looking for ideas and theories to describe the emerge of new scientific fields. For instance: biochemnestry. When this was considered a new field? It's a cross-over of two sciences. When it has journals of its own? When it has dedicated meetings? When people start calling themselves biochemical scientists? Are there models who describe this process? Are there different 'typical paths' that are followed? Can evolutionary models be used for this purpose? Self-organization? What if only a few people are 'crossing' the boundaries of the different sciences? When do these 'early days' end? Any names of people involved in this research (the research of emerging fields in science)? I am curious! Thanks you for reading my posting. Mr. Johnson In sci.bio.misc Johnson <DrJohnson1980@hotmail.com> wrote: > "When can we speak of a new field? When does the era of a specialism > (of the mother-science) end? When a new field is born?" > I am looking for ideas and theories to describe the emerge of new > scientific fields. > For instance: biochemnestry. When someone invents a name for it? SCNR Philipp  SignatureDr. Philipp Pagel Tel. +49-89-3187-3675 Institute for Bioinformatics / MIPS Fax. +49-89-3187-3585 GSF - German National Research Center for Environment and Health http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel But you also have to hype it as well! That's how we got into the current nanotech craze. John > "When can we speak of a new field? When does the era of a specialism > (of the mother-science) end? When a new field is born?" [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > For instance: biochemnestry. "biochemnestry"? [snip] SignatureUncle Al http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/ (Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals) http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf -----Original Message----- From: Uncle Al <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> Newsgroups: sci.bio.misc,sci.chem Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 6:45 PM Subject: Re: Emerging of New Scientific Fields (example: biochemnestry) >> "When can we speak of a new field? When does the era of a specialism >> (of the mother-science) end? When a new field is born?" [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >"biochemnestry"? Yep... Biochemical Amnesty Kostas Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my 7th floor apartment. Alan D. Sokal To reply by private e-mail type replace invalid with gr >"When can we speak of a new field? When does the era of a specialism >(of the mother-science) end? When a new field is born?" [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >I am looking for ideas and theories to describe the emerge of new >scientific fields. Suggest that you read in detail the history for any specific field that interests you. There will be no simple and general answer; there won't even be a simple answer for any specific case. Note a tension between maintaining the connections with the parent fields and establishing the independent identity. The advent of molecular biology is recent enough that much literature is available to you. And the emergence of the field nanotechnology is in progress. bob >For instance: biochemnestry. > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >Thanks you for reading my posting. >Mr. Johnson |
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