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"The science that we are going to see in the near future and certain in the more
long distance future is not going to be the science that we have nowadays.
It's not going to be sliced anymore into disciplines like chemistry and physics
and biology and medicine and computer science and mathematics is going to be interdisciplinary. And in order to solve the problem, we should use all these areas, all these expertises in order to tackle one single problem. If we think history, these divisions are artificial anyway, nature doesn't know about these boundaries. Nature never heard about chemistry. Nature never heard about physics, nature never heard about biology. If we think about the living organism, the human body, it is made of chemical compounds that obey physical rules and that were assembled into life that is constituting biology and if something is going wrong, then we are going to the hospital. Then we are using medicine. So think about cancer, for example, in order to solve the problem of cancer, we still need in the future and we are already using very strong computing tools in order to look into mutations in the big portions of the population to understand which mutations are the drivers and which mutations are the hitchhikers. And then to develop drugs, we shall need computational tools in order to fit the molecules into their protein targets. So science is going to change in a big way, is going to be interdisciplinary.
And there are already the Science.now platform, we are enjoying now, that is bringing together computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists, chemists, biologists, physicians to talk together and to find common round in order to solve the problems that humankind is facing."
Aaron Ciechanover, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Hi, I'm Martin Hellman, and I'm at the Heidelberg laureate's forum right now, which brings together the laureates in mathematics and computer science. My own is in the Turing Award and its for work called Public Key Cryptography. And I'm honored to be a part of this Science.now website that will be bringing together Nobel laureates, Heidelberg laureates and importantly, Nobel Peace laureate as part of that. Because the big issue in my life is how we are going to make sure that there's still a world 50 or 100 years from now for these fantastic advances like public key cryptography and like the prizes in physics and chemistry given for that, there's still a world to appreciate them. And especially bringing in the Nobel Peace Prize is very important for that. And bridging the different disciplines is important because so many different challenges that we have are interdisciplinary.
Martin Hellman, ACM A.M. Turing Award
