Personal recollection

A brief history (and geography) of Supergravity: the first 3 weeks... and after

¹ Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
² Physics Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA

^a e-mail: deser@brandeis.edu

Received: 8 January 2018
Received in final form: 5 April 2018
Published online: 19 July 2018

Abstract

I summarize, at its 41st – and what would have been Bruno Zumino’s 94th – birthday, the history of the discoveries of Supergravity, and some of its structure and later developments.