Tomasz Robert Taylor

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|2|23|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Poznań, Poland

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| fields = Theoretical physics

| workplaces = Northeastern University
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CERN
University of Warsaw

| alma_mater = University of Warsaw

| doctoral_advisor = Stefan Pokorski

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| known_for = Parke–Taylor amplitudes

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{{Short description|Polish theoretical physicist}}

Tomasz Robert Taylor (born February 23, 1954) is a Polish-American theoretical physicist and faculty at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Warsaw, Poland in 1981 under the supervision of Stefan Pokorski. He is a descendant of John Taylor who originated from Fraserburgh in Scotland and emigrated to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth c.1676.

He is known for his discovery, with Stephen Parke, of Parke–Taylor amplitudes, also known as maximally helicity violating (MHV) amplitudes;{{Cite journal|last1=Parke|first1=Stephen J.|last2=Taylor|first2=T. R.|date=1986|title=Amplitude for n-Gluon Scattering|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=56|issue=23|pages=2459–2460|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.2459|pmid=10032998|bibcode=1986PhRvL..56.2459P}} his pioneering use of supersymmetry for computing scattering amplitudes in quantum chromodynamics;{{Cite journal|last1=Parke|first1=Stephen J.|last2=Taylor|first2=T. R.|date=1985|title=Perturbative QCD utilizing extended supersymmetry|journal=Physics Letters B|volume=157|issue=1|pages=81–84|doi=10.1016/0370-2693(85)91216-X|bibcode=1985PhLB..157...81P}} his seminal work, with Ignatios Antoniadis, Edi Gava and Kumar Narain, on topological string amplitudes;{{Cite journal|last1=Antoniadis|first1=I.|last2=Gava|first2=E.|last3=Narain|first3=K. S.|last4=Taylor|first4=T. R.|date=1994|title=Topological amplitudes in string theory|journal=Nuclear Physics B|volume=413|issue=1|pages=162–184|doi=10.1016/0550-3213(94)90617-3|arxiv=hep-th/9307158|bibcode=1994NuPhB.413..162A|s2cid=15426291 }} his formulation, with Ignatios Antoniadis and Hervé Partouche, of the first four-dimensional quantum field theory with partial supersymmetry breaking;{{Cite journal|last1=Antoniadis|first1=I.|last2=Partouche|first2=H.|last3=Taylor|first3=T. R.|date=1996|title=Spontaneous breaking of N = 2 global supersymmetry|journal=Physics Letters B|volume=372|issue=1|pages=83–87|doi=10.1016/0370-2693(96)00028-7|arxiv=hep-th/9512006|bibcode=1996PhLB..372...83A|s2cid=118882758 }} his extensive studies, with Stephan Stieberger, of superstring scattering amplitudes.{{Cite journal|last1=Stieberger|first1=Stephan|last2=Taylor|first2=Tomasz R.|date=2014|title=Closed string amplitudes as single-valued open string amplitudes|journal=Nuclear Physics B|volume=881|issue=Supplement C|pages=269–287|doi=10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.02.005|arxiv=1401.1218|bibcode=2014NuPhB.881..269S|s2cid=119174893 }} and references therein.