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Nature 412, 121-122 (12 July 2001) | doi:10.1038/35084119

Physics from the inside

A. M. Bradshaw1

A list of the important remaining problems in physics compiled at the dawn of the twentieth century might not have been very long. Several noted physicists, including Albert Michelson, Lord Kelvin and Philipp von Jolly, had already agreed that the cathedral of physics was virtually complete, with only a few turrets and pinnacles to be added, a few roof bosses to be carved.