Awards & Winners

Sylvester James Gates

Date of Birth 15-December-1950
Place of Birth Tampa
(Hillsborough County, Florida, United States of America, Area code 813)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Jim Gates
Profession Physicist, Professor
Sylvester James Gates, Jr., known as S. James Gates, Jr, or Jim Gates, is an American theoretical physicist, known for work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He is currently the Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, a University of Maryland Regents Professor and serves on President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Awards by Sylvester James Gates

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sylvester James Gates.

2011


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For contributions to the mathematics of supersymmetry in particle, field, and string theories and extraordinary efforts to engage the public on the beauty and wonder of fundamental physics.)