Deborah S. Jin

Deborah S. Jin commands nothing but admiration from me. A physicist born in Stanford, she created the first fermionic condensate, a genuine frontier of cold-atom science, and her trophy case, MacArthur Fellowship, the L'Oréal-UNESCO award, the Isaac Newton Medal, reads like a roll call of the field's highest honors. She was widely seen as a future Nobel laureate, which makes her death in 2016 at just 47 feel like a real loss to science. Carving a path at the very front of physics, as a woman, took extraordinary force of will. I quietly take my hat off to her; gone far too soon.

Name (English)

Deborah S. Jin

Name (Japanese)

デボラ・S・ジン

Reading

でぼら・S・じん

Born

November 15, 1968 – September 15, 2016

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Monkey

Origin

Stanford, California, United States

Occupation

physicist / university teacher

University

Princeton University

Awards & achievements

• 2003 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2013 L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science
• 2009 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement
• 2014 Isaac Newton Medal
• 2008 Benjamin Franklin Medal
• 2002 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award
• 2000 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
• 2005 I. I. Rabi Prize

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://jila.colorado.edu/jin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%9C%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BBS%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%B3

Tags

• California
• physicist
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-02

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