Peter West (physicist)

Who is this?

Peter Christopher West , born on 4 December 1951, is a British theoretical physicist at King's College, London and a fellow of the Royal Society. West was elected to the Royal Society in 2006; his citation read Professor West is distinguished for the development of the theory of supersymmetry and its application to the construction of unified theories of all the fundamental particle interactions. His results have become cornerstones of the modern theory of superstrings and associated branes to which he continues to contribute actively. Together with his collaborators, West was one of the first to construct both type IIA and type IIB supergravity. These theories combine supersymmetry with general relativity, and they encode many of the properties of strings and branes. West created a research group working on supersymmetry and strings in the Mathematics Department at King's College London.

Career

1. 1951
   Born
2. 2006
   Won Fellow of the Royal Society
3. Member of Royal Society

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Bromley
• •Citizenship: United Kingdom
• •Known as: theoretical physicist