Peter Goddard (physicist)

Peter Goddard
Goddard in 2010
Born (1945-09-03) 3 September 1945 (age 79)
NationalityBritish
EducationEmanuel School and the University of Cambridge
Occupation(s)Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
Known forGKO construction
AwardsMayhew Prize (1967)

Peter Goddard CBE FRS (born 3 September 1945) is a British mathematical physicist who works in string theory and conformal field theory. Among his many contributions to these fields is the Goddard–Thorn theorem (proved together with Charles Thorn).