And can I make a suggestion to us all as we barrel towards elections and post lockdown changes - write to your representatives, show them this and say "more funds, more"
Let's double the science budget in every western democracy.
I work at a lab that builds expensive, highly-specialized scientific instruments, and the scientists who lead that kind of work are right at the edge of what's possible in engineering an instrument that can make a scientific measurement. They get super-excited about stuff like new CCDs, exotic semiconductor doping, high-precision clocks, and detector cooling technologies.
But there are also other scientists who aren't engineering-focused in that same way. They mostly want someone else to make the measurement, and to scoop up the data later and analyze it.
Although come to think of it, many of those scientists do have a focus on the technologies for analysis - say, machine learning or large-scale cloud computations.
One way I used to conceptualize whatever science/engineering divide there is, is in terms of the Myers-Briggs [* ] J/P distinction. Namely, J = judging = engineering, P = perceiving = science. I.e., "build a gizmo to figure this out" vs. "think abstractly about the consequences of theory."
[* ] Subject to the usual caveats.