String Theory Origins of Supersymmetry
arXiv:hep-th/0011078 · doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(01)01492-X
Abstract
The string theory introduced in early 1971 by Ramond, Neveu, and myself has two-dimensional world-sheet supersymmetry. This theory, developed at about the same time that Golfand and Likhtman constructed the four-dimensional super-Poincaré algebra, motivated Wess and Zumino to construct supersymmetric field theories in four dimensions. Gliozzi, Scherk, and Olive conjectured the spacetime supersymmetry of the string theory in 1976, a fact that was proved five years later by Green and myself.
14 pages; Presented at the conference ``30 Years of Supersymmetry''