What ever happened to Classical Unified Field Theory?

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What happened to unified field theory?
Are there currently professional physicists who work on Einstein’s quest to unify the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field (as classical fields), or has this idea been completely abandoned? Is it simply a hopeless endeavour?
 

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