A Sigma Xi White Paper Team Science Heaving (original) (raw)

2012

Abstract

Most of the work still to be done in science and the useful arts is precisely that which needs knowledge and cooperation of many scientists and disciplines. That is why it is necessary for scientists and technologists in different disciplines to meet and work together, even those in branches of knowledge which seem to have least relation and connection with one another. Antoine Lavoisier, 1793 Once science was the nearly exclusive province of the lone researcher. Now scientists from disparate fields glean grains of knowledge that when combined may address important societal problems and complex scientific questions. Individuals still must master their respective fields, but their contributions within teams assembled to transcend disciplines increasingly add to the whole to make it greater than the sum of the parts. Worldwide, scientific research has taken a new approach to discover and apply knowledge from many seemingly unrelated disciplines to create completely new research and pr...

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