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Soo-Bong Kim

Soo-Bong Kim is a astronomy 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 Soo-Bong Kim rather than just read about it. In short: Soo-Bong Kim is a South Korean physicist. Education Kim was born and raised in Busan, South Korea.

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Reference excerpt

Soo-Bong Kim is a South Korean physicist.

Education Kim was born and raised in Busan, South Korea. He attended Dongrae High School, graduating in the class of 1979. Kim then graduated in 1983 and obtained his MS degree from Seoul National University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. Kim's Ph.D. thesis was supervised by Alfred K. Mann and resulted in real-time and directional measurement of solar neutrinos in the Kamiokande-II detector and search for short-time variation.

Work Kim was a postdoctoral fellow and a research investigator at the University of Michigan before moving to Boston University in 1996. He took up his current position at Seoul National University in 1998. He jointly led the efforts of discovering the top quark in 1994 and measuring its mass in 1995 using the Fermilab Tevatron hadron collider as a member of the CDF collaboration. The top quark was the heaviest fundamental fermion yet to be observed before the experiment. The observation and mass measurement of the particle opened a new field of "top quark physics". Kim received his Ph.D. degree in 1989, based on the successful measurement of solar neutrinos using the Kamiokande-II detector, which confirmed the existence of the solar neutrino problem. He participated in the historical and first observation of neutrino burst from the Supernova 1987A and jointly discovered the neutrino oscillations using the Super-Kamiokande detector in 1998. He then joined the effort of measuring neutrino oscillations using a neutrino beam produced by an accelerator. As a member of the K2K (KEK-to-Kamioka) collaboration in 2004, he measured one of the neutrino mixing angles. Kim started construction of a neutrino detector facility, near a nuclear power plant in Korea, to measure the last unknown neutrino mixing angle in 2006, and completed it in early 2011. He has been leading data collection for the RENO experiment since August 1, 2011 using the facility.

Awards Kim and all the members of Kamiokande-II collaboration received Asahi Prize in 1988 and the American Astronomy Society's Bruno Rossi Prize in 1989 for the detection of a neutrino burst from the Supernova SN1987A. He shared the Asahi Prize in 1999 with Super-Kamiokande collaboration for the observation of atmospheric neutrino oscillation. In 2016, he shared the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize with Wang Yifang and Kōichirō Nishikawa. Kim was selected as one of world highly cited 5,000 researchers (HCR) by the ISI. He won the 1st Seoul National University's Academic Research Excellence Prize in 2008. In 2014, Kim was given the Kyung-Ahm Prize for natural science and also the Samil Prize. In 2020, Kim was given the Ho-Am Prize in Science.

Technical reports "Indication of Electron Neutrino Appearance from an Accelerator-produced Off-axis Muon Neutrino Beam", Physical Review Letters 107, 041801 (2011)

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Soo-Bong Kim

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Soo-Bong Kim claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Soo-Bong Kim before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Soo-Bong Kim 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 Soo-Bong Kim

In research: Soo-Bong Kim appears in astronomy 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 Soo-Bong Kim 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: Soo-Bong Kim is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1960 births, Academic staff of Seoul National University, Living people, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Soo-Bong Kim 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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Frequently asked questions

What is Soo-Bong Kim in simple terms?

Soo-Bong Kim is a South Korean physicist. Education Kim was born and raised in Busan, South Korea.

Why does Soo-Bong Kim matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Soo-Bong Kim?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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