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The Chemistry Identity Crisis
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The Chemistry Identity Crisis
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has a long history of going to biologists, leaving actual chemists wondering if their field even exists anymore. The years listed in the title are when biologists snagged the chemistry prize, creating an existential crisis for pure chemists everywhere. It's like hosting a party and watching someone else get congratulated for your cooking. Chemists sit in their labs, surrounded by beakers of colorful liquids that apparently don't merit recognition, quietly muttering "Why are we still here? Just to suffer?" while biologists add another medal to their collection for basically doing chemistry-adjacent work.

The Great Scientific Superiority Complex
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3 months ago 9.6K views 0 shares
The Great Scientific Superiority Complex
The eternal disciplinary smackdown captured perfectly! Physicists love to smugly declare chemistry as "just applied physics" while patting themselves on the back for understanding fundamental forces. Meanwhile, chemists are busy creating actual useful compounds without spending a single neuron contemplating whether quarks feel lonely. This hierarchical science beef goes back decades. Rutherford once called all science "either physics or stamp collecting" - the absolute nerve! Yet chemists get the last laugh here with their perfect "I don't think about you at all" energy. They're too occupied balancing equations and making molecules do their bidding to care about physicists' superiority complex. The true irony? Both fields desperately need each other but would rather die than admit it. Classic academic rivalry at its finest!

Shut Up And Take The Nobel Money
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3 months ago 9.8K views 0 shares
Shut Up And Take The Nobel Money
The eternal turf war between physicists and computer scientists reaches Nobel-level drama! First panel: Pooh looks unimpressed when the prize goes to CS work masquerading as physics. Second panel: Fancy Pooh perks up when realizing physicists can leverage this confusion to convince employers they invented AI. Nothing says "career advancement" like strategic disciplinary identity theft. Physics departments worldwide are frantically updating their CVs as we speak.

The Nobel Prize Turf Wars
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3 months ago 15.5K views 0 shares
The Nobel Prize Turf Wars
This meme perfectly captures the bizarre interdisciplinary politics of Nobel Prizes! In the top panel, giving a chemistry prize to a biologist is deemed "appropriate" because the fields have significant overlap (biochemistry is huge). The receptionist's sweet response shows how normalized this boundary-crossing has become. But award a physics prize to a computer scientist? EMERGENCY! The bottom panel's "inappropriate" label and frantic HR call reveal academia's hidden hierarchies. This happens more than you'd think - computational physics and quantum computing blur these lines constantly, yet the old guard clutches their pearls. The secret joke: these territorial disputes matter way more to academics than to actual scientific progress. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just waiting for someone to cure cancer or build a fusion reactor!