Young-Kee Kim is a South Korea-born American physicist and Albert Michelson Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago.

Young-Kee Kim was born and raised in South Korea.

[1] She was co-Spokesperson of the CDF collaboration between 2004 and 2006 and Deputy Director of Fermilab between 2006 and 2013.

She received the Ho-Am Prize in Science, the Korea University Alumni Award, the Rochester Distinguished Scholar Medal, and the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service from the University of Chicago.

She has devoted much of her research work to understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles by studying the W boson and the top quark, two of the most massive elementary particles, at the Tevatron’s CDF experiment, and by studying the Higgs boson that gives mass to elementary particles at the LHC’s ATLAS experiment.