Summary
So-Young Pi (Korean: 피서영; born 1946) is a South Korean physicist.
So-Young Pi's father was the Korean writer Pi Chun-deuk.[1] She attended Seoul National University, graduating with a degree in physics, before moving to the United States to pursue a doctorate in the subject at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.[2] Pi then completed postdoctoral research at Rockefeller University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3] During her postdoctoral research, Pi met and later married fellow physicist Roman Jackiw. The two had a son, violinist Stefan Jackiw.[1]
Pi taught at Boston University and was granted emeritus status upon retirement.[2] In 2014, she was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, which recognized her "[f]or her seminal contributions to the phenomenon of density fluctuations in theories of cosmic inflation."[4]
References edit
- ^ a b Richard Dyer, "Strings Prodigy: Violinist Stefan Jackiw mixed concert tours and college life", Harvard Magazine July–August 2007, accessed Mar. 9, 2009; Violinist.com, Violin News & Gossip, Op. 2, No. 63, Sep. 17, 2006, accessed Mar. 9, 2009; Kim Hyung-eun, "Chamber music chaps," JoongAng Daily, Jun. 12, 2008, accessed Mar. 14, 2009.
- ^ a b "So-Young Pi". Boston University. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ Jackiw, Roman (5 August 2010). "Oral Histories" (Interview). Interviewed by George Zimmerman. American Institute of Physics.
- ^ "APS fellow archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 7 March 2022.