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 (the largest number of dimensions consistent with a single graviton in supergravity theories), but supermembranes.
Awards and honours.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2000.