CHEMISTRY IN CONTEXT

摘要

To the untutored eye, it may seem as though chemistry is past its prime — fading into the shadow of its siblings physics and biology, or subsumed into new disciplines such as chemical biology. Certainly, four of the past five Nobel prizes in the field have celebrated work with a decidedly cellular flavour. But instead of vanishing, chemistry is merely reinventing itself as its importance to other fields becomes increasingly recognized.