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| Woodward as a freshman at MIT (Image: CHC) |
Putting it another way, the question to ask is whether the
general problem has been solved. Woodward is certainly a case in point...
Read the rest of the post on my Scientific American Blog
Read the rest of the post on my Scientific American Blog
great article, but looks a little "I wrote it in a rush!".
ReplyDelete3rd p: disocvery
5th p: strychinine (1954) and strychinine (1956)
6th p: rcognized
Thanks for the typos, I fixed them.
DeleteThe Tick actually had an episode based around this point. The villian, "The Mother of Invention," was frustrated that all the easy inventions had already been discovered. So he built a time machine to allow himself to go back and take credit for the work of da Vinci, Edison, etc.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, must take a look. It's important to tread the fine line between advocating "End of Science" scenarios and admitting the existence of solutions for fundamental problems. We all like to make fun of Lord Kelvin who declared fundamental physics to be over in 1900, but a Lord Kelvin saying the same thing in 2000 would make some sense.
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