Paul Kingsley Townsend (/ˈtaʊnzənd/; 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.
[2] He received his PhD from Brandeis University in 1976 for his dissertation The 1/N expansion of scalar field theories OCLC 22736707 supervised by Howard Joel Schnitzer.
[3] In 1987, Eric Bergshoeff [de], Ergin Sezgin [de], 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.
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