Nobelist George F. Smoot, newly appointed Professor of Ewha
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Nobelist George F. Smoot, newly appointed Professor of Ewha
He is also designated as a Distinguished Fellow of Ewha Academy for Advanced Studies effective December 18, 2008. As Distinguished Fellow of Ewha Acadmy, Dr. Smoot will teach several courses and give lectures to the public over the next five years as he oversees the creation of the Institute for the Early Universe through the World Class University program.
Earlier this month, Dr. Smoot has been appointed director of a new cosmology institute at Ewha Womans University that will work closely with the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics at UC Berkeley, to explore and understand the early universe. Smoot’s partners at Ewha Womans University are theoretical physicist Changrim Ahn and astronomers Jongmann Yang, Il H. Park and Chanju Kim. His UC Berkeley and LBNL colleagues are cosmologists Eric Linder, deputy director of BCCP, and Uros Seljak, UC Berkeley professor of physics.
| 2006 Nobel Prize winner-Experimental Astrophysicist George Smoot (a professor of physics at University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)) is appointed as a visiting professor of Ewha. South Korea’s Ministry of Education, Science and the Technology named Smoot a visiting scholar at Ewha Womans University through the ministry’s competitive program to strengthen South Korea’s research-oriented universities, the so-called World Class University project. |
Earlier this month, Dr. Smoot has been appointed director of a new cosmology institute at Ewha Womans University that will work closely with the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics at UC Berkeley, to explore and understand the early universe. Smoot’s partners at Ewha Womans University are theoretical physicist Changrim Ahn and astronomers Jongmann Yang, Il H. Park and Chanju Kim. His UC Berkeley and LBNL colleagues are cosmologists Eric Linder, deputy director of BCCP, and Uros Seljak, UC Berkeley professor of physics.