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DURING the past few years, NATURE has published from time to time supplements containing the views of some of our leading astronomers and physicists on problems of the structure and history of the physical universe. These supplements have aroused widespread interest, and the progress which has lately been made, and is still going on, in physical astronomy is probably the most significant aspect of the scientific developments of our time. We may perhaps be pardoned for a feeling of pride that in Great Britain we possess some of the most brilliant workers in this field, whose labours have largely determined the direction of inquiry and inspired the forward march. It is a matter of intense satisfaction that we are second to none in the quality and extent of contributions to know ledge of the universe and its laws, and there is every prospect that the position which British astro physicists have won will be well maintained in the years to come.
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Astrophysics and the 200-Inch Telescope. Nature 123, 132–133 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123132a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/123132a0