Eunseong Kim is a South Korean physicist. He is an experimental

low temperature In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures. The 13th International Institute of Refrigeration's (IIR) International Congress of Refrigeration (held in Washington, DC in 1971) endorsed a universa ...

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. Along with his advisor Moses H. W. Chan, he saw the first phenomena which were interpreted as

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behavior. 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.

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Kim was born on the small island of Geogeum-do in southern South Korea and attended

Pusan National University Pusan National University (PNU; , also called Busan National University) is one of ten Flagship Korean National Universities in South Korea. It is the first national university established after the National Liberation Day of Korea. There ar ...

. After completing his mandatory 26 months of military service, he returned to the university and obtained a B.S. degree in physics in 1998. He spent one year as a graduate student at the same university, and then moved to

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in 1999. He studied

low-temperature physics In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures. The 13th International Institute of Refrigeration's (IIR) International Congress of Refrigeration (held in Washington, DC in 1971) endorsed a universa ...

and obtained his Ph.D. in 2004 under the supervision of Moses H. W. Chan. Kim joined the

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAIST (originally the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) is a national university, national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the ...

(KAIST) in 2006. Since then, he has been working on various low-temperature quantum phenomena. Since July 2007, he has been the director of the Center for Supersolid and Quantum Matter Research at KAIST.

Research

When he was a post doctor of Chan's group, they saw the first phenomenon which was interpreted as supersolid behavior. Later, Kim reported a new evidence of supersolidity in rotating solid helium.H. Choi et al. "Science" 350, 1512 (2010) He found that Non-Classical Rotational Inertia (NCRI) fraction which measures shows that the fraction of helium atoms participating in the super flow and the helium atoms can be strongly suppressed by rotation without altering the elastic properties.

Awards

* 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. * In 2011, he received the Young Scientist Award by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics(C5) and the Yumin Awards (Science).

References

External links

Kim's Research Group

His faculty page at KAIST
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Eunseong 1971 births Living people Academic staff of KAIST Eberly College of Science alumni Pusan National University alumni South Korean physicists