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Noh Do Young

Noh Do Young is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Noh Do Young rather than just read about it. In short: Noh Do Young (Korean: 노도영; born January 13, 1963) is a South Korean physicist specializing in condensed matter physics and materials science using synchrotrons and XFELs. He has developed and applied various frontier X-ray diffraction methods to study condensed matter systems, including recent coherent X-ray diffraction imaging technique.

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Reference excerpt

Noh Do Young (Korean: 노도영; born January 13, 1963) is a South Korean physicist specializing in condensed matter physics and materials science using synchrotrons and XFELs. He has developed and applied various frontier X-ray diffraction methods to study condensed matter systems, including recent coherent X-ray diffraction imaging technique. His research has utilized a number of synchrotron radiation facilities, such as Advanced Photon Source, SPring-8, National Synchrotron Light Source, PLS, and X-ray free electron lasers, including SCALA and PAL-XFEL. Most of his career has been at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) where he was a physics professor, dean of GIST College, and director of the Center for Advanced X-ray Science and the GIST National Core Research Center. He has also served as member of the Korea Research Council of Fundamental Science Technology before becoming the president of the Korea Synchrotron Radiation User's Association. He is a council member of the Presidential Advisory Council for Science and Technology, and the third president of the Institute for Basic Science.

Education Noh received a B.S. in Physics from Seoul National University in 1985. He then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his Ph.D. which was completed in 1991 under doctoral adviser Professor Robert J. Birgeneau. His thesis was a series of X-ray scattering studies concerning the positional and orientational order in two and three dimensional liquid crystal systems.

Career After graduating, he stayed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a post-doctoral associate through 1992. His next position was as a senior physicist at the Exxon Research and Engineering Company in 1993. Two years later, he returned to his home country and started working at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Photon Science & School of Materials Science and Engineering. Over the years, he became a full professor, dean of GIST College, and director of the Graduate Program of Photonic Science & Technology and the Center for Advanced X-ray Science. He was also the director of the GIST National Core Research Center (NCRC) from 2008 to 2015. He has served as a member of the Korea Research Council of Fundamental Science Technology. Other positions include serving as the chairman of the Foundation Expert Committee, National Science & Technology Council, president of the Korea Synchrotron Radiation User's Association, and council member on the Presidential Advisory Council for Science and Technology. In November 2019, he became the third president of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS). His inauguration ceremony was also the farewell ceremony for Kim Doochul, the second IBS president.

Honors and awards 2025: Science and Technology Innovation Award 2012: Order of Science and Technology Merit, Korea 2010: Honorary doctorate degree, Nara Institute of Science and Technology 2007: Commendation, President of the Republic of Korea 2002: Commendation, Ministry of Science and Technology, Korea

See also Oh Se-jung Kim Doochul Kuk Young

References

External links X-ray Laboratory for Nanoscale Phenomena Noh Do Young publications indexed by Google Scholar 노도영 교육인 Naver 인문검색

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Noh Do Young

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Noh Do Young ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Noh Do Young

In research: Noh Do Young appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Noh Do Young in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Noh Do Young is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1963 births, Academic staff of Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Living people, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Noh Do Young outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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