# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sylvester-james-gates
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:07:40.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sylvester-james-gates"
name: "Sylvester James Gates"
slug: "sylvester-james-gates"
description: "Sylvester James Gates Jr., known as S. James Gates Jr. or Jim Gates, is an American theoretical physicist who works on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He is currently the Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland. He also holds the Clark Leadership Chair in Science with the physics department at the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. He is also affiliated with the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. He previously was the Brown University Theoretical Physics Center Director and the Ford Foundation Professor of Physics. He served on former president Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_Gates.jpg?width=1200"
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birthDate: "1950-12-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump