Comments on: Nobel Prize in Chemistry Recognizes Ribosomes http://www.scienceline.org/2009/10/09/blog-kenward-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-ribosomes/ The Shortest Distance Between You and Science Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:01:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Don Monroe http://www.scienceline.org/2009/10/09/blog-kenward-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-ribosomes/comment-page-1/#comment-3472 Don Monroe Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:59:26 +0000 http://www.scienceline.org/?p=2583#comment-3472 I certainly regard the crystallographic studies to be within the realm of chemistry, but when the researchers starting doing selective mutations, that's sounding like standard molecular biology. Still, by <a href="http://middleyard.blogspot.com/2009/10/are-nobel-categories-obsolete.html" rel="nofollow">my count</a>, six of the last ten chemistry prizes have been for biology, and some (like ubiquitinylation in 2004) are even more extreme. "Not that there's anything wrong with that!" By those standards, what in the world isn't physics? I certainly regard the crystallographic studies to be within the realm of chemistry, but when the researchers starting doing selective mutations, that’s sounding like standard molecular biology. Still, by my count, six of the last ten chemistry prizes have been for biology, and some (like ubiquitinylation in 2004) are even more extreme.

“Not that there’s anything wrong with that!”

By those standards, what in the world isn’t physics?

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