Oh goody references to the bio sciences and spectroscopy... I am underwhelmed
Yup. I'm a chemist. And last time I looked, chemistry, biochemistry and spectroscopy were all fields of science, just as much so as physics. The fact remains that I DID precisely what I said, worked in and consulted with LLNL.
Here's some other items:
As a postdoc, I did a short project with Willard Libby. I assume you know who he is.
As an undergrad, I worked in a C-14 dating lab (NOT related to the project with Libby...that was a totally separate work (peer-review published, btw)).
My minor in Grad school was in Nuclear Science. So with that background I have a very good background in nuclear measurements.
MEASUREMENT is my area of expertise, and I'm damned good at it, having garnered two R&D100 awards for my work (actually one R&D100 and one IR100).
But the thing that makes me a scientist and you a joke is that I look at ALL the data, and not just what happens to fit my prejudices.