[carlob]

So Rutherford says: "All science is either physics or stamp collecting" and then wins the Nobel prize for…

You got that right: chemistry!

[rdouble]

Chemistry is applied physics, after all.

[carlob]

I'd rather imagine him fuming in one corner: "stupid Nobel committee… they should have kept their crappy stamp collecting prize…"

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"Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been ." Theodore von Kármán