Paul Townsend
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Paul Kingsley Townsend FRS is a British physicist, currently a Professor of Theoretical Physics in Cambridge University's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He is notable for his work on string theory
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He received his PhD from Brandeis University
in 1976 for his dissertation The 1/N expansion of scalar field theories . Since then he has over 140 publications.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2000.
String theory
String theory is an active research framework in particle physics that attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity. It is a contender for a theory of everything , a manner of describing the known fundamental forces and matter in a mathematically complete system...
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He received his PhD from Brandeis University
Brandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
in 1976 for his dissertation The 1/N expansion of scalar field theories . Since then he has over 140 publications.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2000.
External links
- Home Page at Cambridge