So-Young Pi

{{Short description|South Korean physicist}}

So-Young Pi ({{langx|ko|피서영}}; born 1946) is a South Korean physicist.

So-Young Pi's father was the Korean writer Pi Chun-deuk.[https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2007/07/strings-prodigy.html Richard Dyer, "Strings Prodigy: Violinist Stefan Jackiw mixed concert tours and college life"], Harvard Magazine July–August 2007, accessed Mar. 9, 2009; [https://www.violinist.com/blog/Darcylewis/20069/5768/ Violinist.com, Violin News & Gossip], Op. 2, No. 63, Sep. 17, 2006, accessed Mar. 9, 2009; [https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2008/06/11/artsDesign/Chamber-music-chaps-/2890994.html Kim Hyung-eun, "Chamber music chaps]," JoongAng Daily, Jun. 12, 2008, accessed Mar. 14, 2009. 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.{{cite news |title=So-Young Pi |url=https://www.bu.edu/physics/profile/so-young-pi/ |access-date=7 March 2022 |publisher=Boston University}} Pi then completed postdoctoral research at Rockefeller University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.{{cite interview |last=Jackiw |first=Roman |subject-link=Roman Jackiw |interviewer=George Zimmerman |title=Oral Histories |work= |date=5 August 2010 |publisher=American Institute of Physics |location= |url=https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/34449 |access-date=}} During her postdoctoral research, Pi met and later married fellow physicist Roman Jackiw. The two had a son, violinist Stefan Jackiw.

Pi taught at Boston University and was granted emeritus status upon retirement. In 2014, she was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, which recognized her "[f]or her seminal contributions to the phenomenon of density fluctuations in theories of cosmic inflation."{{cite news |title=APS fellow archive |url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=P&year=2021&unit_id=&institution= |access-date=7 March 2022 |publisher=American Physical Society}}