Sylvester James Gates

Sylvester James Gates

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birth_date = December 15, 1950
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nationality = United States
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field = Physics
work_institutions = University of Maryland, College Park
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known_for = Supersymmetry
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Sylvester James (Jim) Gates, Jr. (born December 15, 1950) is a noted American theoretical physicist. He received BS and PhD degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the latter in 1977. His doctoral thesis was the first thesis at MIT to deal with supersymmetry. Gates is currently the John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is known for his work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory.

Gates has been featured extensively on many NOVA PBS programs on physics, most notably The Elegant Universe in 2003. In 2006, He completed a DVD series titled "Superstring Theory: The DNA of Reality" for The Teaching Company comprised of 24 half-hour lectures to make the complexities of unification theory comprehensible to laypeople. [cite web |url= http://news.concordia.ca/faculties/007534.shtml |title= Sylvester James Gates Jr. lecture |accessdate=2008-07-03 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= News@Concordia |publisher= Concordia University

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Book

* "L'arte della fisica - Stringhe, superstringhe, teoria unificata dei campi", 2006, Di Renzo Editore, ISBN 8883231554.

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External links

* [http://www.physics.umd.edu/people/faculty/gates.html Jim Gates' Homepage]
* [http://www.superstringtheory.com/people/jgates.html Jim Gates on superstringtheory.com]


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