Michael Faraday’s lab. Interesting how early electricity researchers were basically chemists first. What new field today has an unlikely parent? What current field might give rise to an unlikely child field?
I find it vaguely reassuring that the frontier of modern science was opened up by a nearly pure experimentalist who barely knew any formal math but who was thought by Maxwell to have been an intuitive math genius. https://warpcast.com/vgr/0x90ac00
Computational biology. You wouldn't think to mix binary code with the wet, squishy, messy things that *literally* caused "bugs" in early computers, but it's a huge interdisciplinary field that brought major advances into both biology and comp sci. e.g., biology has both inspired and facilitated advanced AI/ML.
