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.[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]

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2000.[5]

References


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