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The common thread in all of your examples is people with mathematical training bringing mathematical formalisms to disciplines that lacked them.

If you're just offering the wisdom gleaned from your life experiences, they're unlikely to be more insightful that anyone else's.

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Many of the advances in biology in the middle of the 20th century were also helped along by physicists who switched to biology, often inspired by Schrodinger's What is Life? (1946). The list includes Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and (coming from physical chemistry) Rosalind Franklin.
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