Trailblazers in Black History: Sylvester James Gates, Jr.

This video was published on YouTube on January 7, 2011. 

Sylvester James (Jim) Gates, Jr. is a theoretical physicist who received BS (mathematics and physics) and Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the latter in 1977. His doctoral thesis was the first thesis at MIT to deal with supersymmetry. 

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