Yeom Han-woong
Yeom Han-Woong | |
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Yeom Han-Woong | |
| Born | 5 December 1966 |
| Nationality | South Korean |
| Alma mater | Tohoku University |
| Known for | Pioneering the physics research of self-assembled atomic wires |
| Awards | Young Researcher of the Year, Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research (1999) Scientist and Engineer of the Month, Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea (2006) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Pohang Institute of Science and Technology, Yonsei University, Institute for Basic Science |
| Doctoral advisor | Shozo Kono |
| Yeom Han-woong | |
| Hangul | 염한웅 |
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| Hanja | 廉罕雄 |
| RR | Yeom Hanung |
| MR | Yŏm Hanung |
Yeom Han-woong (born 5 December 1966) is a South Korean physicist. A tenured professor at POSTECH, he has led several research centers for the university and from 2013 in collaboration with the Institute for Basic Science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has served as vice chairman of the Korean government's first science and technology advisory group for three consecutive terms. With more than 300 publications to his name, his research has been cited over 5,000 times giving him an h-index of 40 and i10-index of 125.