alt Hacker NewsI remember back when I was in university a long while ago all the PhDs had fees except for material science where you could get paid to do one because there was so much demand for the research.
I remember back when I was in university a long while ago all the PhDs had fees except for material science where you could get paid to do one because there was so much demand for the research.
Right.
Long ago, i had read an interview with an Indian Scientist where he stated that all of civilization's progress were only enabled by progressions in Materials Science ! (which is basically an inter-disciplinary field involving all hard sciences and engineering). The "Scientific Revolution" was merely identifying the underlying principles and systematizing them into Theories and Models. He also mentioned that the future belongs to those countries who master Materials Science since it also implies the mastery of the underlying principles.
When you think about it; Mankind was playing with different materials, inventing new ones using various combinations etc. before having any scientific idea of the elements constituting them (eg. the periodic table) or the molecular structure of the gross object which was responsible for its characteristic properties etc. Successes were passed down via tradition from master to apprentice and when a single generation failed (due to disinterest/death/etc.) the whole accumulated knowledge corpus was lost. With the scientific revolution we commoditized the principles and with the industrial revolution we commoditized the technology thus accelerating everything and leading us to where we are today.