Young-Kee Kim is a

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-born American

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

and Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at

the University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the be ...

. She is chair of the Department of Physics at the university.

Education

Young-Kee Kim was born and raised in South Korea. *1984 B.S. Physics,

Korea University Korea University (KU, ) is a private research university in Seoul, South Korea, established in 1905. The university is included as one of the SKY universities, a popular acronym referring to Korea's three most prestigious universities. The ...

*1986 M.S. Physics,

*1990 Ph.D. Physics,

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of Roc ...

Career

As an experimental particle physicist, she has devoted much of her research work to understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles by studying the W boson and the top quark, two of the most massive elementary particles, at the Tevatron’s CDF experiment, and by studying the

Higgs boson The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory. In the Stand ...

that gives mass to elementary particles at the LHC’s ATLAS experiment. She also works on accelerator science, playing a leadership role in NSF's Science and Technology Center, the Center for Bright Beams. She was co-Spokesperson of the CDF collaboration between 2004 and 2006 and Deputy Director of

Fermilab Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics. Since 2007, Fermilab has been operat ...

between 2006 and 2013. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017), the

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(2012), the

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(2004) and an Alfred P. Sloan fellow (1997). She received the

Ho-Am Prize The ''Ho-Am Prize'' (호암상, 湖岩賞, literally ''lake and rock award'') is a Korean annual award presented to "domestic/abroad ethnic Korean who have made outstanding contributions to the development of science and culture and enhancement o ...

(2005), the Korea University Alumni Award (2012) and the Rochester Distinguished Scholar Medal (2010). She was elected a member of the

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in 2022.

Work

Young-Kee Kim is an experimental particle physics. She has devoted much of her research work to understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles by studying the W boson and the top quark, two of the most massive elementary particles, at the Tevatron’s CDF experiment, and by studying the Higgs boson that gives mass to elementary particles at the LHC’s ATLAS experiment. *1990–1995: Postdoc Fellow / Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory *1996–2000: Assistant Prof. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley *2000–2001: Associate Prof. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley *2002: Professor of Physics,

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*2003–Present: Professor of Physics, University of Chicago *2006–2013: Deputy Director, Fermilab *2016–Present: Chair, the Department of Physics, University of Chicago *2017–Present: Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

Awards

*1987: Rush Rhees Fellow *1997: Alfred P. Sloan Fellow *2004:

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*2005:

*2010: Rochester Distinguished Scholar Medal *2012: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science *2012: Korea University Alumni Award *2012: Leadership Award, Women in Science, Chicago Council of Science and Technology *2017: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Research positions

*1993–1999: Leader, CDF W Mass Analysis Group *1995–1996: Co-Leader, CDF Electroweak Physics Group *2000: Associate Project Manager, CDF Run II Upgrade *2001: Associate Head, CDF Run II Detector Operations *2002: Co-Leader, CDF Level-3 Trigger System *2003–2004: Co-Leader, CDF Top Mass Analysis Group *2004–2006: Co-Spokesperson, CDF Collaboration at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab

References

External links

Oral history interview transcript for Young-Kee Kim on 5 January 2021, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Young-kee 1962 births Living people 21st-century American physicists South Korean emigrants to the United States Korea University alumni University of Rochester alumni Recipients of the Ho-Am Prize in Science Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the American Physical Society People associated with Fermilab Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences