The Development of Supergravity Grand Unification: Circa 1982-85

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The development in the early eighties of supergravity grand unified models with gravity mediated breaking of supersymmetry, has led to a remarkable progress in the study of supersymmetry at colliders, in dark matter and in a variety of other experimental searches in the intervening years since that time.

• The purpose of this note is to review this development and describe our construction of this theory in the period 1982-85.