1935
Born to Kyung Sun Kim and Yeon Shik Ok in Sorae, North Korea before the North Korean government was installed in 1948.
1946
Moves with his family to Seoul, South Korea.
1954
Moves to the United States to become a freshman at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, PA.
1958
Earns a Bachelor of Science in physics from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University).
1961
Obtains a Doctor of Philosophy in physics and a postdoctoral fellowship from Princeton University.
1962
Teaches at the University of Maryland as an assistant, associate and full professor in the department of physics until 2007.
1977
Co-authors “Covariant Harmonic Oscillators and the Parton Picture” in Physics Review D.
1979
Co-authors “Representation of the Poincare Group for Relativistic Extended Hadrons” in the Journal of Mathematical Physics.
1983
Co-authors “Gauge Transformations as Lorentz-boosted Rotations” in Physics Letters.
1986
Co-authors “Theory and Applications of the Poincare Group.”
1989
Writes “Observable Gauge Transformations in the Parton Picture” in Physics Review Letters.
1990
Co-authors “Space-time Geometry of Relativistic Particles” in the Journal of Mathematical Physics.
1991
Co-authors “Phase Space Picture of Quantum Mechanics.”
2007
Attains emeritus status at the University of Maryland.
2015
Co-authors “Physics of the Lorenz Group.”
2018
Co-authors “New Perspectives on Einstein’s E = mc2, Applications of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.”
2019
Co-authors “Einstein’s E=mc2 derivable from Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Relations.”
2019
Co-authors “Poincare Symmetry from Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Relations” and “Mathematical Devices for Optical Sciences.”
2021
Co-authors “Physics of the Lorentz Group Second Edition with Further Contents of Einstein’s E=mc2.”