# supersymmetry

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #78,170

## Definitions
1. A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.

## Etymology
From super- + symmetry. In the modern physics sense, coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and American physicist John Strathdee in 1974 as super-symmetry, in a paper in Physics Letters B as a simplification of super-gauge symmetry used by Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino.

## Source
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