So-Young Pi ( ko, 피서영; born 1946) is a South Korean physicist. So-Young Pi's father was the Korean writer Pi Chun-deuk. Richard Dyer, "Strings Prodigy: Violinist Stefan Jackiw mixed concert tours and college life"
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" ''JoongAng Daily'', Jun. 12, 2008, accessed Mar. 14, 2009. She attended

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, graduating with a degree in physics, before moving to the United States to pursue a doctorate in the subject at the

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. Pi then completed postdoctoral research at

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and the

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. During her postdoctoral research, Pi met and later married fellow physicist

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. The two had a son, violinist

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. Pi taught at

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and was granted emeritus status upon retirement. In 2014, she was elected a fellow of the

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, which recognized her " r her seminal contributions to the phenomenon of density fluctuations in theories of cosmic inflation."

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Living people 1946 births South Korean expatriates in the United States South Korean women scientists South Korean physicists Stony Brook University alumni Seoul National University alumni Hongcheon Pi clan Fellows of the American Physical Society {{physicist-stub