Antedating of "String Theory"

[Fred Shapiro]

string theory (OED 1975)

1973 _Nuclear Physics B_ 24 Sept. 54  We may hope that a third kind of
excitation is not going to be important at low energies, so that we may
have a pure dual string theory in the low energy range of this strong
coupling limit of the Landau-Ginzburg-like theory.

Fred Shapiro


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