Letter: Correction:

Published 20 March 1999

In “A theory of everything”
(Inside Science no 118, 20 February),
it was stated that the Americans C. N. Yang and R. Mills developed the Yang-Mills
theory. In fact, this work was published in 1954, whereas Yang was a Chinese
citizen until 1964.

Issue no. 2178 published 20 March 1999

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