Paul Townsend
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.Education
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.Work
In 1987,, and Paul Townsend showed that there are no superstrings in eleven dimensions, but supermembranes.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2000.
