I am hard pressed to think of any significant discovery in the last 100 years or so which was not made by specialists (granted, often with a wide view of things). I’m sure there are some, but likely only a tiny fraction. If you look through the list of Nobel laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, do you find any “generalists” there? Or, assuming the Nobel committee is biased toward the establishment, inspired by “generalists”?
I am hard pressed to think of any significant discovery in the last 100 years or so which was not made by specialists (granted, often with a wide view of things). I’m sure there are some, but likely only a tiny fraction. If you look through the list of Nobel laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, do you find any “generalists” there? Or, assuming the Nobel committee is biased toward the establishment, inspired by “generalists”?