Sylvester James Gates

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Sylvester James Gates, Jr. is an African American theoretical physicist. He received his PhD from MIT 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 University of Maryland, College Park. He is known for his work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory.

Professor Gates has been featured extensively on many NOVA PBS programs on physics, most notably The Elegant Universe in 2003. In 2006, Professor Gates 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.

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  • "L'arte della fisica", Di Renzo Editore, Roma, 2006


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