The Korea Times
A specialized field of physics born in a Korean laboratory received a definitive seal of global recognition, marking a rare instance where a locally pioneered theory has been elevated to an international reference standard. The Ministry of Science and ICT said Wednesday that a comprehensive review of two-dimensional van der Waals magnetism, led by Park Je-geun, a professor at Seoul National University's department of physics and astronomy, has been published in Reviews of Modern Physics. Issued by the American Physical Society, the journal is widely regarded as the most selective in the field, typically reserved for senior authorities whose work defines the trajectory of entire subdisciplines. The 88-page paper synthesizes more than 15 years of inquiry into a fundamental question: Can magnetism survive in materials only one atomic layer thick? While the theoretical possibility was first proposed in 1943 by the Nobel laureate Lars Onsager, a Norwegian American theoretical physicist and physical chemist, the hypothesis remained unproven for decades, languishing as a classic problem of co
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