• Question: I know you answered my string theory question but who made the string theory

    Asked by 238ntrd24 to Irene on 16 Nov 2015.
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      Irene Regan answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      Great Q:)
      The key theorist behind these early models would probably be Gabriele Veneziano.

      The string theories turned out to be the wrong model for hadron physics, but were later adapted to their present role as a theory of all elementary particles by a number of theorists.
      Some of the earliest and most important were Pierre Ramond, Andre Neveu, John Schwarz and Joel Scherk. This development occurred in the mid 1970s.
      Of course many, many theorists were involved in the development of string theory which continues to this date.

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