Deborah S. Jin Dies at 47; Physicist Studied Matter in Extreme Cold

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Deborah S. Jin, a truly revolutionary physicist, recently passed away at the age of 47. Her groundbreaking works lead her to produce a state of matter that has previously only been theorized by Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose. She was able to cool a cube of rubidium within a sliver of absolute zero, which caused the atoms to fuse together into one coherent particle. She took the experiment even further by doing the same with atoms that are less likely to bond together. She passed away from cancer in September 2016, leaving a loving family behind.

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She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physics from Princeton in 1990 before earning her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1995.
That involved cooling two types of atoms and then finding a way to bring them close enough to bond, without the atoms heating up from the energy of the collision.
Lasers and magnetic fields carefully braked and steered the atoms, siphoning off energy as they bound together into molecules.

“She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physics from Princeton in 1990 before earning her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1995.”

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