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Sunday, July 3, 2022

Basic timeline of string theory

This post is a basic timeline of string theory. There are 20 events listed below chronologically.

• 1937: John Archibald Wheeler proposes the S-matrix
• 1956: Murray Gell-Mann recognizes dispersion relations approach
• 1959: Tullio Regge proposes Regge trajectories
• 1961: Chew and Frautschi analyze mesons using Regge trajectories
• 1967: Dolen, Horn and Schmid propose DHS duality
• 1968: Gabriele Veneziano proposes the dual resonance model and Veneziano amplitude
• 1969: Paton and Chan propose the Chan-Paton rules for the Veneziano model
• 1969-1970: Nambu, Nielson and Susskind propose physical interpretation of Veneziano amplitude
• 1971: Ramond and independently Schwarz and Neveu propose spinning strings
• 1974: Schwarz, Scherk and independently Yoneya discover connection between boson string vibration and the graviton
• 1977: Gliozzi, Scherk and Olive propose tachyon-free unitary free string theories
• 1984: Green and Schwarz discover anomaly cancellation in type I string theory and Green-Schwarz mechanism
• 1985: Gross, Harvey, Martinec and Rohm propose heterotic stings
• 1985: Candelas, Horowitz, Strominger and Witten discover connection between N = 1 supersymmetry and the Calabi-Yau manifold
• 1987: Bergshoeff, Sezgin and Townsend propose supermembranes in eleven dimensions
• 1995: Edward Witten proposes M-theory
• 1995: Joseph Polchinski proposes D-branes
• 1997-1998: Juan Maldacena proposes AdS/CFT correspondence between N = 4 supersymmetric Yang Mills theory and type IIB string theory
• 2003: Michael R. Douglas proposes the string theory landscape
• 2003: Kachru, Kalloch, Linde and Trivedi propose KKLT mechanism for vacuum stabilization

Sources

Wikipedia: History of string theory, M-Theory