Crain's Chicago Business magazine has selected Young-Kee Kim, deputy director of Fermilab, as one of its 20 Women to Watch for 2008--a list that includes Michelle Obama; Sophia Siskel, CEO of the Chicago Botanic Garden; Mideast policy expert Rachel Bronson of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; and Irene Rosenfeld, chairman and CEO of Kraft Foods.
The magazine's video tribute to Kim, titled "The Collider Queen," begins:
Young-Kee Kim is chasing the meaning of life. For many, that's a philosophical or religious question. But for this award-winning physicist, the answer lies in science.
Kim is a professor of physics at the University of Chicago and a collaborator on the Collider Detector at Fermilab, or CDF, experiment, as well as the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider and efforts to develop the Internationl Linear Collider. She has been deputy lab director since 2006. More about her here.
