Deborah S. Jin (born 1968) is a physicist with the NIST; Assistant Professor Adjoint, Department of Physics at the University of Colorado; a fellow of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), a National Institute of Standards and Technology joint laboratory with the University of Colorado and leader of the team that made the first Fermionic condensate. She won the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" in 2003. 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The word physicist should not be confused with physician, which means medical doctor. ... As a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce’s Technology Administration, the National Institute of Standards (NIST) develops and promotes measurement, standards, and technology to enhance productivity, facilitate trade, and improve the quality of life. ... The University of Colorado (CU) System consists of five campuses: University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Colorado Springs University of Colorado at Denver University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Fitzsimons campus of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, scheduled to open in 2007 in Aurora, Colorado... As a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce’s Technology Administration, the National Institute of Standards (NIST) develops and promotes measurement, standards, and technology to enhance productivity, facilitate trade, and improve the quality of life. ... This article or section should be merged with fermion condensate The fermionic condensate is a superfluid phase formed by fermionic atoms at low temperatures. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jin, a physicist working at JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, was chosen as one of eight medal recipients from among 28 finalists in seven different categories.
Jin received the award for creating "a new form of matter which could potentially unlock the key to superconductivity, a phenomenon with the potential for improving energy efficiency dramatically across a broad range of applications."
Jin, a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., led a team in creating the first Fermi condensate on Dec. 16, 2003.
Jin, a fellow at JILA (a collaboration between the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder), has pushed potassium atoms into behaving strangely.
Jin's accomplishments are particularly remarkable because she was not trained in the area of physics in which she has excelled: she had neither the technical expertise needed for BEC work nor the background.
The pairing of the fermions was strong enough, Jin adds, so that "I think it tells you that it is possible to have room-temperature superconductors." Although the competition is fierce and travel often takes Jin away from her young daughter, she revels in the quantum world: "It is not intuitive.
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