Deborah S. Jin | |
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金秀兰 | |
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Born | Stanford, California, U.S. | November 15, 1968
Died | September 15, 2016 Boulder, Colorado, U.S. | (aged 47)
Alma mater | Princeton University (BA) University of Chicago (PhD) |
Known for | fermionic condensate |
Awards | MacArthur Fellowship (2003) Benjamin Franklin Medal (2008) Isaac Newton Medal (2014) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | National Institute of Standards and Technology University of Colorado at Boulder |
Thesis | Experimental study of the phase diagrams of heavy fermion superconductors with multiple transitions (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Thomas F. Rosenbaum |
Doctoral students | Brian L. DeMarco Cindy Regal |
Website | Jin Group at Colorado |
Deborah Shiu-lan Jin (simplified Chinese: 金秀兰; traditional Chinese: 金秀蘭; pinyin: Jīn Xiùlán; 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 was frequently mentioned as a strong candidate for the Nobel Prize in Physics.[9][10] In 2002, Discover magazine recognized her as one of the 50 most important women in science.[11]
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