Eunseong Kim

In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.

Eunseong Kim
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
Revised Romanization	Gim Eun-seong
McCune–Reischauer	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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Bibliography

Kim was born on the small island of Geogeum-do in southern South Korea and attended Pusan National University. 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 and obtained his Ph.D in 2004 under the supervision of Moses H. W. Chan.

Kim joined the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (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.^[3] 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).

References

1. E. Kim and M. H. W. Chan (2004). "Probable Observation of a Supersolid Helium Phase". Nature. 427 (6971): 225–227. Bibcode:2004Natur.427..225K. doi:10.1038/nature02220. PMID 14724632. S2CID 3112651.
2. "2008 Lee Osheroff Richardson prize".
3. H. Choi et al. “Science” 350, 1512 (2010)

External links

• Kim's Research Group
• His faculty page at KAIST Archived 2012-12-20 at archive.today