Deborah S. Jin
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Deborah S. Jin (born 1968) is a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); Professor Adjoint, Department of Physics at the University of Colorado; a fellow of the JILA, a NIST joint laboratory with the University of Colorado. In 2003, Dr. Jin's team at JILA made the first fermionic condensate. She won the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" in 2003, and in 2004 she was recognized by Scientific American as "Research Leader of the Year". She is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 2008 Jin was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.
Jin graduated from Princeton University in 1990 and received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1995.
[edit] References
- ^ "The Scientific American 50 Award", Scientific American, December 2004, p. 44.
[edit] See also
- MacArthur Foundation Wikipedia article for a list of "genius grant" recipients
- Franklin Institute Wikipedia article on the Franklin Institute
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