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Chang Kee Jung

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Chang Kee Jung
Photo of Chang Kee Jung.
Born24 April
South Korea
NationalityAmerican
Alma materIndiana University, Bloomington Indiana
AwardsSUNY Distinguished Professorship, 2015; The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2016 (shared, Super-Kamiokande, K2K and T2K Collaborations), 2015; Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity, State U. of New York, 2014; Outstanding Faculty (Teacher) Award, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook U., 2010
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics (high-energy particle physics)
InstitutionsStony Brook University
Thesis Measurement of The F + Meson Lifetime  (May 1986)
Doctoral advisorProf. Harold O. Ogren
Websitehttp://superk.physics.sunysb.edu/~alpinist/

Chang Kee Jung is an American experimental physicist and a leading expert in neutrino oscillations. He is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University and serves as chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department at Stony Brook University.

Early life

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Chang Kee Jung was born in Daegu, South Korea, and moved to Seoul around age 10. He graduated from Seoul High School in 1973 and completed his B.S. in physics at Seoul National University in 1979, with a brief interruption for mandatory military service from 1976 to 1977.[1] During his undergraduate period, Jung was an avid member of the Seoul National University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alpine Club. In 1980, Jung moved to the U.S. to enroll in a Ph.D. program at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. While enrolled in the university, he also studied music and music composition. Jung received his Ph.D. specializing in Experimental High Energy Physics from Indiana University in 1986.[1]

Academic career

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Jung became a research associate (postdoc) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) in 1986. He became an assistant professor at Stony Brook University in 1990, gaining full professorship in 2000, and becoming a SUNY Distinguished Professor in 2015.[2] He received a SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2014.[3]

Research

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From 1986 to 1990, Jung completed his postdoctoral research at SLAC, Stanford University,[1] working on the HRS Experiment, PEP, and the MarkII Experiment, SLC.[4] In 1991 he joined the Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment and established the Stony Brook Nucleon decay and Neutrino (NN) Group.[5] The group was part of a coalition that participated in the Super-Kamiokande experiment, which led to the discovery of the neutrino oscillation phenomenon. This work was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2015.[6] Jung has served on the boards and committees of several Neutrino and Nucleon Decay experiments, including his role as co-spokesperson for the K2K U.S. Collaboration and the international co-spokesperson for the T2K Collaboration.[2] All three experiments (Super-Kamiokande, K2K and T2K) were awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2016.[7]

Presently, Jung is the spokesperson for the T2K US Collaboration and the founder and chair of the Steering Committee for the Next generation Nucleon decay and Neutrino detectors (NNN) Workshop Series.[2] He is also working on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

Awards and Honors

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In 2021, Jung was awarded the 2022 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize from the American Physical Society.

In 2019, Jung received the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize from the European Physican Society (shared, D0 Collaboration).

Jung received the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (shared, Super-K, K2K, T2K collaborations)

Jung has been elected to the following fellowships:

The Physics of Sports

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Jung has been committed to spreading knowledge of physics to non-science majors and the public throughout his teaching career. He introduced two courses targeted at non-science majors at Stony Brook University, titled "Light, Color and Vision" and "The Physics of Sports." The latter, created in 2003, was the first of its kind to be offered in the U.S.[4] Jung's success with this course has since lead him to be sought out by sports news outlets, such as NBC 4 New York[9] and ABC News.[10] Notably, he has been cited for his scientific insight on the NFL deflate-gate scandal.[10][11]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-11. Retrieved 2017-02-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ a b c https://indico.fnal.gov/getFile.py/access?contribId=1&resId=1&materialId=slides&confId=9389 [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ "Chancellor's Awards". www.stonybrook.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-06-20. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  4. ^ a b "Chang Kee Jung Home Page". superk.physics.sunysb.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-08-20. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  5. ^ "Stony Brook NN Group". nngroup.physics.sunysb.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-08-20. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  6. ^ "The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics - Press Release". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  7. ^ "Breakthrough Prize". breakthroughprize.org. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  8. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  9. ^ "Beckham's One-Handed TD Catch Really the Greatest?". NBC New York. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  10. ^ a b "'Deflate-Gate' Explained With Animated Stick Figures". ABC News. 2015-01-22. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  11. ^ "Armour: Patriots' response to Ted Wells has air of desperation". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
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