Eunseong Kim | |
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Born | 1971 (age 52–53) Gogeum Island, Goheung-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea |
Alma mater | Pusan National University (B.S. 1998) Penn State University (Ph.D. 2004) |
Known for | The discovery of the supersolid quantum state of matter |
Awards | Lee Osheroff Richardson North American Science Prize Young Scientist Award Yumin Awards (Science) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Low temperature physics, supersolid |
Institutions | KAIST |
Doctoral advisor | Moses H. W. Chan |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 김은성 |
Revised Romanization | Gim Eun-seong |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Ŭnsŏng |
Eunseong Kim is a South Korean physicist. He is an experimental low temperature physicist. Along with his advisor Moses H. W. Chan, he saw the first phenomena which were interpreted as supersolid behavior.[1] In 2008, Kim was awarded the Lee Osheroff Richardson North American Science Prize, from Oxford Instruments for his contributions to the understanding of solid helium.[2]