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Deborah S. Jin

デボラ・S・ジン　/　でぼら・S・じん

American physicist

November 15, 1968 – September 15, 2016　・　Stanford, California, United States

California
physicist
university teacher

My Take

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.

Overview

Deborah Shiu-lan Jin (Chinese: 金秀兰; 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. She was considered a pioneer in polar molecular quantum chemistry.

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1. Profile

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
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: physicist / university teacher

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
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

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

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

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