NIST's Jin recognized by Discover Magazine. (General Developments).In its November issue, Discover Magazine has recognized Deborah Jin of NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. as one of "The 50 Most Important Women in Science." Jin was cited for her pioneering work in creating fermion fermion (fûr`mēŏn'): see elementary particles; exclusion principle; Fermi-Dirac statistics. fermion Any of a group of subatomic particles having odd half-integral spin (¹⁄₂, quantum gases. Like Bose-Einstein Condensates Bose-Einstein condensate: see condensate. (BECs), fermion gases consist of a large number of quantum constituents at the lowest achievable temperatures. However the fermions, opposite the bosons in BECs, are con-strained to all be in different quantum states. The results can shed light on other many-body systems, such as superconductors. This work is carried out at JILA JILA Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (Space) . CONTACT: Jim Faller, (303) 492-8509; fallerj@jila. colorado.edu. |
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