Deborah Jin

Deborah Jin (2011)

Deborah S. Jin (born November 15, 1968 - September 15, 2016 ) was an American physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

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Jin earned a BA from Princeton University in 1990 and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1995. in physics. As a postdoc , she worked at the National Research Council . Since 1997 she has been an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado and was a member of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), a cooperation between NIST and the University of Colorado.

Deborah Jin led the group that produced the first fermion condensate .

Deborah Jin was married. She died of cancer .

Awards

Jin received the NAS Award for Initiatives in Research and the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award from the American Physical Society (APS) in 2002 and the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (“genius grant”) in 2003 . In 2005 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2007 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2008 she received the Benjamin Franklin Medal . For 2013 she was awarded a UNESCO L'Oréal Prize . In 2014 she received the Comstock Prize for Physics and the Isaac Newton Medal . Since 2015 she has been one of Thomson Reuters favorites for a Nobel Prize in Physics .

literature

• Brian DeMarco, John Bohn, and Eric Cornell : Deborah S. Jin (1968-2016). In: Nature . Volume 538, No. 7625, 2016, p. 318, doi: 10.1038 / 538318a
• Cindy Regal and Jun Ye : Deborah S. Jin (1968-2016). In: Science . Volume 354, No. 6313, 2016, p. 709, doi: 10.1126 / science.aal2545

Web links

• colorado.edu: JILA
• colorado.edu: Jin Group at JILA
• Literature by and about Deborah Jin in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In Memoriam: Deborah Jin. Press release. University of Colorado Boulder, September 19, 2016, accessed September 20, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present (PDF, 383 kB) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); Retrieved November 1, 2012
3. ↑ Announcing the 2015 Citation Laureates , at Thomson Reuters.