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Sylvester James Gates, Jr. (born December 15, 1950), 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 a 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. ==Biography== Gates received BS (1973) and PhD (1977) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His doctoral thesis was the first at MIT on supersymmetry. With M. T. Grisaru, M. Rocek and W. Siegel, Gates coauthored ''Superspace, or One thousand and one lessons in supersymmetry'' (1984), the first comprehensive book on supersymmetry. 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.〔(Nifty Fifty ), USA Science and Engineering Festival〕 He is on the board of trustees of Society for Science & the Public. 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 pursuing ongoing research into string theory, supersymmetry, and supergravity at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. His research focuses on Adinkra symbols as representations of supersymmetric algebras. On February 1, 2013, Gates was a recipient of the National Medal of Science.〔http://bigstory.ap.org/photo/barack-obama-sylvester-james-gates-0〕 Gates was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sylvester James Gates」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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