Education
Jin graduated from in 1990 and received her degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 1995.
Jin graduated from in 1990 and received her degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 1995.
She is considered a pioneer in polar molecular quantum chemistry. From 1995 to 1997 she worked with Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman at JILA, where she was involved in some of the earliest studies of dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensates. In 2003, Doctor Jin"s team at JILA made the first fermionic condensate, a new form of matter.
She used magnetic traps and lasers to cool fermionic atomic gases to less than 100 billionths of a degree above zero, successfully demonstrating quantum degeneracy and the formation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate.
Jin is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jin has won a number of prestigious awards, including: 2000, Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering 2002, Maria Goeppert Mayer Award 2003, MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" 2004, Scientific American"s "Research Leader of the Year" 2008, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics 2013, L"Oréal-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Foreign Women in Science Award Laureate for North America 2014, The Institute of physics Isaac Newton Medal 2014, Comstock Prize in Physics, "for a recent innovative discovery or investigation in electricity, magnetism, or radiant energy.".
National Academy of Sciences.
