Scientists who aren’t afraid to range across disciplines

When I was in grade school, science seemed like the stuff of solitary geniuses. We learned about Edison, Einstein and Darwin as great men laboring alone in search of their breakthrough discovery. But science is a team sport, a fact that’s often obscured by the “lone genius” trope. Edison, for one, employed dozens of young men, whom he called “muckers,” to develop materials for phonograph records and insulation for electrical wires.