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5. For the author, what is more important: interdisciplinary teams or interdisciplinary people? Why?
Answer:
The author thinks that interdisciplinary people are more important. For him, interdisciplinary teams are important where a mammoth technical goal is clearly defined, but he doesn't think that interdisciplinary teams can develop new fields in science. In an interdisciplinary team, every member identifies himself as an expert in something else besides the actual scientific problem at hand. The author sees new fields being forged by interdisciplinary people and not teams.
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