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Scientific American

December 1, 1999

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The Unexpected Science to Come...

The most important discoveries of the next 50 years are likely to be ones of which we cannot now even conceive

By Sir John Maddox

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SIR JOHN MADDOX was lecturer in theoretical physics at the University of Manchester from 1949 to 1956 and editor-in-chief of Nature from 1966 to 1973 and from 1980 to 1995. He was knighted for "services to science" in 1985.

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