Sylvester James Gates

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sylvester James Gates
Occupation	Physicist
Date Of Birth	Dec 15, 1950(1950-12-15)
Age	74
Birthplace	Tampa
Country	United States
Birth City	Florida
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Sylvester James Gates Biography

Sylvester James Gates is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on December 15, 1950 in Tampa, Florida, United States. Sylvester James Gates Jr. (born on December 15th 1950) who is popularly referred to in the media as S. James Gates Jr. or Jim Gates, is an American theoretical physicist, who studies in the fields of supersymmetry, supergravity and the theory of superstrings. He has retired from the Physics Department and the Center for Fundamental Physics at the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences in the year 2017 and is currently in the position of Brown Theoretical Physics Center Director and The Ford Foundation Professor of Physics and Mathematics, as well as an Affiliate Professor and Watson Institute for International Studies & Public Affairs Faculty Fellow at Brown University. He was an University of Maryland Regents Professor and was a member of former President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

On February 1st, 2013 Gates was awarded the National Medal of Science. Gates has been elected into the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.

Gates was nominated by the Department of Energy as one of the USA Science and Engineering Festival’s “Nifty Fifty” Speakers to present his work and career to middle and high school students in October 2010. On December 5, 2016, Gates spoke at the 2016 Quadrennial Physics Congress, the largest ever gathering of physics undergraduates.

In 2018, Gates was elected to the presidential line of the American Physical Society: he began serving as its Vice President in 2019, and will serve as President as of 2021.

Gates was a Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar at MIT (2010-11) and was a Residential Scholar at MIT’s Simmons Hall. He is currently conducting research on supersymmetry, string theory as well as supergravity, and supergravity at Brown University. His current research focuses on Adinkra symbols, which is a graph-theoretic method to study the supersymmetric theory of representation.

Sylvester James Gates Net Worth

Sylvester James Gates is one of the richest Physicist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sylvester James Gates 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gates has Gates earned two BS diplomas at MIT with a major in Mathematics as well as Physics (1973) in addition to being awarded the award of his PhD (1977). His doctoral dissertation was the first one at MIT in the field of supersymmetry. Together with M. T. Grisaru, M. Rocek and W. Siegel, Gates co- authored Superspace or One Thousand plus one supersymmetry lessons (1984) the first complete book on supersymmetry.

Recently, Gates has been included on TurboTax along with Verizon commercials. He has also been prominently featured in NOVA PBS programs on physics including “The Elegant Universe” (2003). He also produced a DVD called Superstring Theory: The DNA of Reality (2006) for The Teaching Company consisting of 24 half-hour talks to make the complex nature of unification theory understandable for people who are not experts. The 2008 World Science Festival, Gates presented his performance of the ballet “The Elegant Universe”, in which he presented an opening public presentation of artistic expressions that are a part of his research. Gates was a guest at the 2011, Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate the Theory of Everything, hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Gates was also on The BBC Horizon documentary The Hunt for Higgs in 2012. Gates was recently featured in another NOVA document “Big Bang Machine” in 2015.

Gates, the oldest of four siblings, was born in Tampa, Florida, the son of Sylvester James Gates, Sr., a career U.S. Army man, and Charlie Engels Gates. His mother died when he was 11. When his father remarried, his new stepmother, a teacher, brought books into the home and emphasized the importance of education. The family moved many times while Gates was growing up, but, as he was entering 11th grade, settled in Orlando, Florida, where James attended Jones High School—his first experience in a segregated African-American school. Comparing his own school’s quality to neighboring white schools, “I understood pretty quickly that the cards were really stacked against us.” Nevertheless, an 11th grade course in physics established Gates’ career interest in that field, especially its mathematical side. At his father’s urging, he applied for admission to MIT.

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Sylvester Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Sylvester James Gates celebrates birthday on December 15 of every year.

Top Facts about Sylvester James Gates

1. Sylvester James Gates is an American theoretical physicist.
2. He was born on December 15, 1950 in Tampa, Florida.
3. Gates received his PhD from MIT in 1977.
4. He has made significant contributions to supersymmetry and string theory.
5. Gates is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
6. He has won numerous awards for his research, including the National Medal of Science.
7. Gates served as a science advisor to President Obama’s administration.
8. He currently holds a professorship at Brown University.
9. Gates is also known for his work promoting diversity in STEM fields.
10. His research focuses on understanding the fundamental nature of reality.

What did Sylvester James Gates invent?

Sylvester James Gates Jr.
Known for| Contributions to Supersymmetry, Supergravity and Superstring Theory Superspace Supersymmetry nonrenormalization theorems Superconformal algebra Bihermitian manifolds Mirror symmetry (string theory) Adinkra symbols

What did Sylvester James Gates do?

Gates served on the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, contemporaneously on the Maryland State Board of Education from 2009-2016, and the National Commission on Forensic Science from 2013-2016. He is known for his work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory.

When was Dr Sylvester James Gates Jr born?

Physicist and physics professor Sylvester James Gates, Jr. was born on December 15, 1950 in Tampa, Florida to Charlie Engels and Sylvester James Gates, Sr. His father worked for the U.S. Army, causing the family to move many times. Gates had lived in six cities by the time he reached the sixth grade.

Why is supersymmetry needed?

Supersymmetry is an extension of the Standard Model that aims to fill some of the gaps. It predicts a partner particle for each particle in the Standard Model. These new particles would solve a major problem with the Standard Model – fixing the mass of the Higgs boson.

Who is a theoretical physicist?

A theoretical physicist is a scientist who uses mathematics, calculations, chemistry, biology and a series of theories to understand the complex workings of the universe and the interactions between matter and energy.