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

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. Along with his advisor Moses H. W. Chan, he saw the first phenomena which were interpreted as supersolid 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 and second highest public universities in South Korea. Located mainly in Busan (or Pusan), the universi ...

. 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 Penn State University in 1999. He studied

low temperature physics In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures. The 13th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration (held in Washington DC in 1971) endorsed a universal definition of “cryogenics” and “cr ...

and obtained his

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in 2004 under the supervision of Moses H. W. Chan. Kim joined the

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is a national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the nation's first public, researc ...

(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).

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External links

Kim's Research Group

His faculty page at KAIST
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