Antedating of "Superstring"

[Fred Shapiro]

superstring (OED 1982)

1975 _Physics Letters B_ 9 June 59  We present in this note a
supersymmetric string model, of "super-string" model, which can carry spin
and other quantum numbers and in which the supergauge constraints arise
naturally.

Fred Shapiro


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