Joël Scherk (1946-1980)
In memoriam Joël Scherk
Joël Scherk died on May 16, 1980. Although 33 years old, he had made many very important discoveries in dual string theory and supergravity, as will be manifest in this review. It is striking to note how logical and sustained the development of his thinking was.
His first important contribution was the renormalization of the one-loop open dual strin…
