Have we solved chemistry?
A new book suggests chemistry is over 90% ‘complete’ – and that could be a good thing
Chemistry has painted itself into a corner. Or, rather, it’s sketched a ‘beautiful painting’ and ‘we’re touching up the corners’ when it comes to our understanding. So argues Bernie Bulkin in his new book Solving chemistry, which argues that all the major problems in chemistry have been solved and there are no great discoveries left. Anything really interesting is at the interfaces with biology and physics.