Talk:Soft matter

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[edit] Categorization

I removed redundant categories and moved the other to Category:Soft matter. There's no need for all of them to be here. Karol 18:03, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. I think there is need for them to be here. The categories provide information about the subject that otherswise could take up pages worth of text to write out. Bensaccount 21:28, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Please read WP:CG and Wikipedia:Categorisation FAQ. Karol 02:51, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
There is really no need for this page to be in all those categories when Category:Soft matter is already in them. And Category:Physics is also uneccesary and redundant. Karol 09:49, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
It is not redundant. Most articles belong in both a category and its parent category. This allows them to be found in lists, and provides valuable information. btw, this is not the same page as Category:Soft matter (which is a category). Bensaccount 23:12, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
My gosh... this is crazy. Have it your way, but Category:Physics is totally redundant too much a high-level category for this page. Look at the kind of pages placed in there. Karol 18:09, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nobel prize in physics, 1991

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1991 for his research on soft matter.

I removed the above from the article because it was unsourced and the source I found doesn't support the statement. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1991/index.html is the page I found, and it states "for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers." Now, this may be soft matter, but it doesn't sound like it to me, so I think a better source should be found. -FrankTobia (talk) 18:34, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

The article itself (along with its references) establishes liquid crystals and polymers as part of soft matter. But I improved the statement and added citations.Sanddune777 (talk) 00:52, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks :-). I think it's much better now: it's clear enough for me to understand the connection. -FrankTobia (talk) 21:23, 29 January 2008 (UTC)