| Young-Kee Kim | |||||||||||
| Nationality: | American | ||||||||||
| Field: | Particle physics | ||||||||||
| Work Institution: | University of Chicago, Physics, Professor | ||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Ph.D. University of Rochester | ||||||||||
| Doctoral Advisor: | Stephen Olsen | ||||||||||
| Known For: | President of the American Physical Society (2024) Co-Spokesperson of the CDF Experiment (2004-2006) Deputy Director of Fermilab (2006-2013) Chair of Physics Department at U.Chicago (2016-2022) | ||||||||||
| Prizes: | Member, National Academy of Sciences (2022) Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017) Ho-Am Prize in Science (2005) APS Fellow (2004) Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012) | ||||||||||
| Website: | http://hep.uchicago.edu/~ykkim/index.shtml | ||||||||||
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Young-Kee Kim is a South Korea-born American physicist and Albert Michelson Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. She is 2024 President of the American Physical Society.
Young-Kee Kim was born and raised in South Korea.
As an experimental particle physicist, she has devoted much of her research work to understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles by studying the W boson and the top quark, two of the most massive elementary particles, at the Tevatron’s CDF experiment, and by studying the Higgs boson that gives mass to elementary particles at the LHC’s ATLAS experiment. She also works on accelerator science, playing a leadership role in NSF's Science and Technology Center, the Center for Bright Beams.[1]
She was co-Spokesperson of the CDF collaboration between 2004 and 2006 and Deputy Director of Fermilab between 2006 and 2013. She chaired the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago between 2016 and 2022. She was President of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineering Association in 2022-2023 and President of the American Physical Society in 2024.
She is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences,[2] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She received the Ho-Am Prize in Science, the Korea University Alumni Award, the Rochester Distinguished Scholar Medal, and the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service from the University of Chicago.
Young-Kee Kim[3] is an experimental particle physicist. She has devoted much of her research work to understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles by studying the W boson and the top quark, two of the most massive elementary particles, at the Tevatron’s CDF experiment, and by studying the Higgs boson that gives mass to elementary particles at the LHC’s ATLAS experiment.