Paul Townsend

Paul Kingsley Townsend FRS (/ˈtaʊnzənd/) 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[3] for his dissertation The 1/N expansion of scalar field theories OCLC 22736707. Since then he has over 140 publications.[4]

Work

In 1987, Eric Bergshoeff, Ergin Sezgin 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),[5] but supermembranes.[6]

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2000.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "DAMTP>>People>>Professor P.K. Townsend".
  2. ↑ Townsend Home Page at Cambridge
  3. ↑ "SPIRES-HEP Search". Stanford University.
  4. ↑ Publications by Paul K Townsend per WorldCat.org
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ E. Bergshoeff, E. Sezgin and P. K. Townsend, "Supermembranes and Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity," Phys. Lett. B 189: 75 (1987).
  7. ↑ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on March 24, 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2010.


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