Kim Jihn-eui | |
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| Born | (1946-07-30)30 July 1946 (age 79) |
| Alma mater | Kyunggi High School Seoul National University University of Rochester |
| Known for | KSVZ model Strong CP Invariance Cosmological Gravitino |
| Awards | Korea Science Award (1987) Ho-Am Prize (1992) Humboldt Prize (2001) Top Scientist and Technologist Award of Korea (2003) |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Seoul National University |
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| Hangul | 김진의 |
| Hanja | 金鎭義 |
| RR | Gim Jinui |
| MR | Kim Chinŭi |
Kim Jihn-eui (Korean: 김진의; born July 30, 1946) is a South Koreantheoretical physicist. His research interests concentrate onparticle physics andcosmology and has many contributions to the field, most notably the suggestion of the invisible axion.
Kim was born inGurye,South Jeolla Province in 1946. He graduated fromKyunggi High School and earned his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering fromSeoul National University in 1971. He earned hisPh.D. inparticle physics fromUniversity of Rochester in 1975. He became a research associate atBrown University from 1975 to 1977 and worked as a research investigator atUniversity of Pennsylvania to 1980. Then he was appointed to assistant professor of Seoul National University in 1980 and had been there until retirement in 2011. Afterwards he took a position atGwangju Institute of Science and Technology inGwangju. Currently he is distinguished professor and eminent scholar atKyung Hee University.
He was also a professor in School of Physics atKorea Institute for Advanced Study from 1998 to 1999 and held many inviting positions from other institutions includingCERN,University of Michigan,Harvard University andUniversity of Bonn.
Kim's research is focused on the elementary particle theory and particle cosmology.He suggested the invisible axion model known as theKSVZ (Kim–Shifman–Vainshtein–Zakharov) model, which provides a solution to thestrong CP problem in theStandard Model.[1]He also advocated that theaxino, the supersymmetric dual ofaxion, can be a strong candidate ofdark matter of our universeand contended that it might have played an important role in the formation of galaxies and may offer a significant part of the current energy density of the universe. His review about the neutral current gave a good understanding of theGlashow–Salam–Weinberg model to the field.[2][3]With H. P. Nilles, he formulated and presented the solution of the μ problem insupergravity, then he led the calculation of the cosmological effect of thegravitino.[4]From the collapse effect of the supergraviton which interacts much weaker than a light axion or axino,Kim obtained the upper limit of the reheating temperature of the universe 109GeV and that made an early contribution of the field of cosmological research about heavy and weak interacting particles.[5]He also did the first attempt to get the Standard Model from thesuperstring theory.He contributed to the development of standard model from the higher-dimensional theories by reducing the dimensions oforbifoldand was absorbed in thecosmological constant problem and gave a clue of the solution of it in 5dspacetime.
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