Sylvester James Gates
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| Sylvester James Gates | |
 At the World Science Festival, June 2008
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| Born | December 15, 1950 |
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| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Known for | Supersymmetry |
Sylvester James (Jim) Gates, Jr. (born December 15, 1950) is a noted American theoretical physicist. He received BS and PhD degrees from MIT, 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.[1]
[edit] Book
- L'arte della fisica - Stringhe, superstringhe, teoria unificata dei campi, 2006, Di Renzo Editore, ISBN 8883231554.
[edit] Notes
- ^ The Teaching Company. Superstring Theory: The DNA of Reality
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