Peter Christopher West FRS, born on 4 December 1951, is a British theoretical physicist at King's College, London and a fellow of the Royal Society.
West created a research group working on supersymmetry and strings in the Mathematics Department at King's College London.
[13][14][15] The non-renormalization theorem plays a key role in determining how supersymmetry might be realised in nature and the above were the first discovered non-trivial conformal quantum field theories in four dimensions.
Kellogg Stelle and West,[17] and at the same time Sergio Ferrara and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen,[18] found the supergravity theory in four dimensions which possesses an algebra with four supersymmetries which existed without the use of the equations of motion that is, they found the auxiliary fields that extended the first discovered supergravity theory.
[29] More recently West has proposed that M-theory, the underlying theory of strings and branes, should have a very large Kac–Moody algebra, called E11, as a symmetry.