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ONE of the most striking features in the advance of present-day science is the importance which borderland sciences have come to assume. In part this has resulted from the growing tendency towards intensive specialisation, and as more and more fields are demarcated the debatable lands tend to be neglected. With the advance of science there has been a parallel growth in its diversity. Chemists and other classes of scientific worker are tending more and more to subdivide themselves into special sections which often have little in common, and the ‘generalpractitioner’, whether in medicine or elsewhere, has tended to lose caste.
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Scientific Research and Patent Law. Nature 129, 593–594 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129593a0
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