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Nature Physics 2, 73 - 74 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys220

Subject Categories: Particle physics | Astrophysics

String theory: On the shoulders of giants

Michael Green1

  1. Michael Green is in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK. e-mail: m.b.green@damtp.cam.ac.uk


In the early 1900s, the Solvay conferences famously brought together the early protagonists of quantum theory. At the latest meeting in the series, the issue was now the quantum structure of space–time itself.

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