About So-Young Pi
Born 1946. So-Young Pi is a South Korean physicist.
So-Young Pi (; born 1946) is a South Korean physicist.
So-Young Pi's father was the Korean writer Pi Chun-deuk. She attended Seoul National University, graduating with a degree in physics, before moving to the United States to pursue a doctorate in the subject at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Pi then completed postdoctoral research at Rockefeller University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During her postdoctoral research, Pi met and later married fellow physicist Roman Jackiw. The two had a son, violinist Stefan Jackiw.
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Who is So-Young Pi?
South Korean physicist
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So-Young Pi was born in 1946.
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So-Young Pi is a physicist.
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So-Young Pi is South Korean.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). So-Young Pi. https://biography.guide/so-young-pi/
MLA: "So-Young Pi." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/so-young-pi/.
Chicago: "So-Young Pi." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/so-young-pi/.
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