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Deborah S. Jin
Born(1968-11-15)November 15, 1968
Stanford, California
DiedSeptember 15, 2016(2016-09-15) (aged 47)
Boulder, Colorado
Alma materPrinceton University;
University of Chicago
Known forfermionic condensate
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship (2003)
Benjamin Franklin Medal (2008)
Isaac Newton Medal (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsNational Institute of Standards and Technology;
University of Colorado at Boulder
Doctoral advisorThomas F. Rosenbaum
WebsiteJin Group at Colorado
External videos
video icon “Deborah S. Jin, 2013 L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards Laureate for North America”, L’Oréal Foundation

Deborah Shiu-lan Jin (November 15, 1968 – September 15, 2016) was an American physicist and fellow with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); Professor Adjunct, Department of Physics at the University of Colorado; and a fellow of the JILA, a NIST joint laboratory with the University of Colorado.[1][2]

She was considered a pioneer in polar molecular quantum chemistry.[3][4] From 1995 to 1997 she worked with Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman at JILA, where she was involved in some of the earliest studies of dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensates.[5] In 2003, Dr. Jin's team at JILA made the first fermionic condensate, a new form of matter.[6] She used magnetic traps and lasers to cool fermionic atomic gases to less than 100 billionths of a degree above zero, successfully demonstrating quantum degeneracy and the formation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate.[7][8] Jin died of cancer on September 15, 2016 in Boulder, Colorado.[9][10]

Education

Born in Santa Clara County, California,[11] Jin graduated from Princeton University in 1990 and received her doctoral degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 1995 with Thomas Felix Rosenbaum as her doctoral thesis advisor.[5]

Honors and awards

Jin was an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005)[4] and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007).[12][13]

Jin won a number of prestigious awards, including:

References

  1. ^ a b "Deborah S. Jin". JILA, University of Colorado. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Interview with Deborah S. Jin". Annenberg Learner. Annenberg Foundation. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  3. ^ B DeMarco, J Bohn, and E Cornell (2016) "Deborah S. Jin", Nature 538(7625), 318.
  4. ^ a b c Ost, Laura. "JILA/NIST Fellow Deborah Jin to Receive 2014 Comstock Prize in Physics". NIST Tech Beat. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
  5. ^ a b c "2002 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient Deborah S. Jin". American Physical Society. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  6. ^ "A New Form of Matter: II, NASA-supported researchers have discovered a weird new phase of matter called fermionic condensates". Science News. Nasa Science. February 12, 2004.
  7. ^ a b Galvin, Molly (January 16, 2014). "Academy Honors 15 for Major Contributions to Science". News from the National Academy of Sciences. National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  8. ^ Regal, C. A.; Greiner, M.; Jin, D. S. (28 January 2004). "Observation of Resonance Condensation of Fermionic Atom Pairs". Physical Review Letters. 92 (4). arXiv:cond-mat/0401554. Bibcode:2004PhRvL..92d0403R. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.040403. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  9. ^ Weil, Martin. "Deborah Jin, government physicist who won MacArthur 'genius' grant, dies at 47". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  10. ^ "Deborah Jin Dies at 47". JILA. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  11. ^ "California Birth Index, 1905-1995". FamilySearch. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  12. ^ "Professor Deborah S. Jin". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  13. ^ "2007 Class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members by Class and Section" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  14. ^ "MacArthur Fellows / Meet the Class of 2003 Deborah Jin". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  15. ^ Holloway, Marguerite (2004). "Superhot among the Ultracool". Scientific American (September). Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  16. ^ "Deborah Jin". The Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  17. ^ Davidowitz, Suzie (October 22, 2012). "L'OREAL-UNESCO for Women in Science Names Professor Deborah Jin 2013 Laureate for North America". Market Wired. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  18. ^ "Five exceptional women scientists receive L'OREAL-UNESCO Awards". News Africa. 8 April 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  19. ^ "Institute of Physics announces 2014 award winners". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
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