John Ellis (physicist)
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John Ellis is a British theoretical physicist born in 1946. He attended Cambridge University, and led the particle theory group at CERN for six years. He is best known for assisting Dimitri Nanopoulos in the unification of string theory with the Standard Model. He also named the "penguin diagram", a type of Feynman diagram.
Ellis is responsible for coining the term Theory of Everything (ToE) in an article published in the journal Nature in 1986. He has also claimed to have played a role in the naming of Grand Unified Theory, together with collaborators at CERN.
