Interdisciplinary science begins to influence classical scientific classification

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Xinhua News Agency, Paris (Reporter Yang Jun) Many famous Chinese scientists in France pointed out that with the continuous development of scientific categories, current professional discipline research often involves other disciplines, and interdisciplinary science has begun to gradually affect the classification of classical science.

Wang Zhaozhong, director of the French National Center for Scientific Research and chief scientist of the China National Center for Nanotechnology, said that if classical science has been classified according to physics, chemistry, biology, etc. since the 18th century, then the current scientific classification is very different. The emergence of nanoscience has broken people's original understanding. Its research must intersect with many disciplines such as quantum mechanics. Whether in terms of scale or nature, it needs people to improve their understanding.

Zhang Yongmin, president of the French Association of Chinese Science and Technology Workers and senior researcher at the French National Higher Normal School, said that multidisciplinary research will help the development of cutting-edge science. In the past, scientific research categories were very rough, and later they became more and more detailed. Chemistry alone was divided into organic chemistry, biochemistry, medicinal chemistry, etc. Because they were too specialized, limitations emerged. Some overly detailed disciplines are difficult to study without the help of other disciplines, so now we should promote interdisciplinary science.

Zhang Yongmin introduced his actual work experience, saying: "For example, I am studying drug synthesis, and Professor Fan Botao of Paris VII University is engaged in drug design. Our cooperation has enabled both of us to make progress in our work. From this point of view, interdisciplinary science now plays a very important role. The relationship between disciplines is like the saying 'long-term unity will lead to division, and long-term division will lead to unity', which requires us to constantly adjust."