Kwang-je Kim

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 김광제
Revised
Romanization
Gim Gwang-je
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Kim Kwangche

Kwang-Je Kim (* 1944 in Korea ) is a South Korean physicist .

Kim studied physics at Seoul National University (Seoul State University) and received his bachelor's degree in 1966. He then went to the United States , where he received his PhD from the University of Maryland in 1970. Kim conducted research in theoretical elementary particle physics at the SLAC , at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Munich and at the University of Mainz before doing research on accelerators at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1978 to 1998 . In the end, Kim was deputy head of the Center for Beam Physics . In 1998 he moved to the Argonne National Laboratory , where he is a Distinguished Fellow of the laboratory. He is also a part-time professor at the University of Chicago .

Awards

  • 2014: Robert R. Wilson Prize for pioneering work on the theory of synchrotron radiation and free electron lasers, which laid the foundations for third and fourth generation X-ray sources (laudation).
  • In 1995 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
  • 1997 International Free Electron Laser Prize
  • 2013 USPAS Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kwange-Je Kim 1944-. ( MS Word ; 39 kB) Retrieved October 15, 2013 (English).
  2. Prize Recipient Kwang-Je Kim. Retrieved October 15, 2013 .