Foundation
Honoring Deborah Jin
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Submitted by Dr. William D. Phillips
Debbie Jin (1968-2016) pioneered ultra-cold Fermi gases. After the 1995 demonstration of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in an atomic gas, the next frontier was a quantum degenerate Fermi gas—fermionic atoms cooled to super-low temperature. This was even harder than the Nobel-winning work on BEC, but Debbie’s creativity, skill, and determination made it happen. She established a new direction of research whose benefits continue to pour in from labs around the world that followed her lead.
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