Eunseong Kim
Eunseong Kim | |
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| Born | 1971 (age 53–54) Gogeum Island, Goheung-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea |
| Alma mater | Pusan National University (B.S. 1998) Penn State University (Ph.D. 2004) |
| Known for | The discovery of the supersolid quantum state of matter |
| Awards | Lee Osheroff Richardson North American Science Prize Young Scientist Award Yumin Awards (Science) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Low temperature physics, supersolid |
| Institutions | KAIST |
| Doctoral advisor | Moses H. W. Chan |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 김은성 |
| RR | Gim Eunseong |
| MR | Kim Ŭnsŏng |
Eunseong Kim is a South Korean physicist. He is an experimental low temperature physicist. 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.