Paul Townsend
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Other people". Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Paul Kingsley Townsend (Script error: No such module "IPAc-en".; born 3 March 1951) is a British physicist, currently a Professor of Theoretical Physics in Cambridge University's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.[1] He is notable for his work on string theory.[2]
Education
He received his PhD from Brandeis University in 1976 for his dissertation The 1/N expansion of scalar field theories Template:Catalog lookup link supervised by Howard Joel Schnitzer. Since then he has over 320 publications.[3]
Work
In 1987, Template:Interlanguage link multi, Template:Interlanguage link multi, and Paul Townsend showed that there are no superstrings in eleven dimensions (the largest number of dimensions consistent with a single graviton in supergravity theories),[4] but supermembranes.[5] In 1977 he was the first to formulate pure 4D N = 1 supergravity in anti-de Sitter space.[6]
Awards and honours
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2000.[7]
References
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- ↑ This was demonstrated in: Werner Nahm, "Supersymmetries and their representations". Nuclear Physics B 135 no 1 (1978) pp 149-166, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(78)90218-3
- ↑ E. Bergshoeff, E. Sezgin and P. K. Townsend, "Supermembranes and Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity," Phys. Lett. B 189: 75 (1987).
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External links
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