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RefNoEC/2000/39
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TitleTownsend, Paul Kingsley: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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CitationProfessor Townsend made important contributions to the original formulation of supergravity, which is a generalization of general relativity that unifies bosons and fermions. He subsequently originated many of the most significant ideas in the theory of the solitons of supergravity theories, known as supermembranes, and elucidated the significance of these objects in the underlying structure of string theory. Of particular importance was his development in 1994 of nonperturbative duality symmetries in string theory that led to a unified understanding of all superstring theories together with supergravity. This has transformed the study of string theory and led to its generalization known as 'M theory'.
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