A supersymmetry relating mesons and baryons was first proposed, in the context of hadronic physics, by H Miyazawa in 1966, but his work was ignored at the time. In the early 1970s, J. L. Gervais and B. Sakita (in 1971), Yu. A. Golfand and E.P. Likhtman (also in 1971), D.V. Volkov and V.P. Akulov (in 1972) and J. Wess and B. Zumino (in 1974) independently rediscovered supersymmetry, a radically new type of symmetry of spacetime and fundamental fields, which establishes a relationship between elementary particles of different quantum nature, bosons and fermions, and unifies spacetime and internal symmetries of the microscopic world.

— Wikipedia on Supersymmetry

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