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Physics: Unification + 150

In 1861, James Clerk Maxwell unified electricity, magnetism and light. Experiments under way today could inch physicists closer to combining everything else.

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M. Mitchell Waldrop is an editor for Nature in Washington DC.

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Waldrop, M. Physics: Unification + 150. Nature 471, 286–288 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471286a

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