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Sung Wan Kim

Sung Wan Kim is a biology 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 Sung Wan Kim rather than just read about it. In short: Sung Wan Kim (August 21, 1940 – February 24, 2020) was a South Korean-American academic who worked as a distinguished professor of pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Utah. He is the founder and co-director of the University of Utah's Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery.

Key takeaways

Sung Wan Kim belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Sung Wan Kim to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Sung Wan Kim from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Sung Wan Kim (August 21, 1940 – February 24, 2020) was a South Korean-American academic who worked as a distinguished professor of pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Utah. He is the founder and co-director of the University of Utah's Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery.

Early life and education Kim was born in Pusan, South Korea. He received his B.S. and M.S. at Seoul National University in 1963 and 1965, respectively. In 1969, he received his PhD in physical chemistry at the University of Utah under Professor Henry Eyring.

Career Kim was considered a pioneer in the field of drug delivery. He was the founder of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Drug Delivery, which is held biennially in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was an elected member of the United States National Academies' Institute of Medicine (1999) and the National Academy of Engineering (2003). He was a Fellow in the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, Biomaterials Society and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Kim trained more than 100 scientists from 13 countries, had 25 patents and more than 550 publications. In addition to his contributions to academia, Dr. Kim was a successful entrepreneur. He was the founder of Expression Genetics, Inc., MacroMed, Inc. (Acquired by Protherics, Plc) and a co-founder of TheraTech, Inc. (Acquired by Watson Pharmaceuticals).

Personal life A naturalized U.S. citizen, Dr. Kim was married and had two children.

Awards 1987: Clemson Basic Biomaterials Award Distinguished Research Award, University of Utah 1988: Utah Governor's Medal for Science and Technology 1995: Research Achievement Award in Drug Delivery, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Founders Award, Controlled Release Society 1996: Japanese Biomaterials Research Award 1998: Volwiler Award, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy 2002: Dale Wurster Award, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists 2003: Ho-am Prize in Medicine, Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence 2006: honorary doctorate, Twente University 2014: Terumo Global Science Prize He was awarded the Outstanding Paper in the Journal of Controlled Release three times, in 1989, 1991, and 1998.

References

External links Sung Wan Kim's page at the University of Utah Pharmaceutics, University of Utah

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Sung Wan Kim

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Sung Wan Kim claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, 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 Sung Wan 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 Sung Wan 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 Sung Wan Kim

In research: Sung Wan Kim appears in biology 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 Sung Wan 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: Sung Wan Kim is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1940 births, 2020 deaths, American pharmacologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Sung Wan 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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How to study Sung Wan Kim in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Sung Wan Kim matter?

Because it connects several biology 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.

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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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