title: An elegant advance in the physics of wetting.
abstract: The non-local interfacial Hamiltonian for short-ranged models of wetting phenomena proposed by Parry and co-authors is discussed in the context of the history of wetting transitions.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Henderson