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| complete name: |
Steven Chu |
| nobel prize: |
physics |
| award year: |
1997 |
| together with: |
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji |
| together with: |
William Daniel Phillips |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 was awarded jointly to Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Steven |
| family name: |
Chu |
| occupation: |
politician |
| occupation: |
physicist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| field of work: |
atomic physics |
| work location: |
University of California, Berkeley, 200 California Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States of America |
| description: |
Steven Chu is an American physicist who is known for his research at Bell Labs and Stanford University in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips. Chu served as the 12th United States Secretary of Energy from 2009 to 2013. At the time of his appointment as Energy Secretary, Chu was a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research was concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the single molecule level. Chu resigned as energy secretary on April 22, 2013. He returned to Stanford as Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology. Chu is a vocal advocate for more research into renewable energy and nuclear power, arguing that a shift away from fossil fuels is essential to combating climate change. For example, he has conceived of a global "glucose economy", a form of a low-carbon economy, in which glucose from tropical plants is shipped around like oil is today. |
| pronunciation: |
(Chinese: 朱棣文; pinyin: Zhū Dìwén) |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1997/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1948 |
| usual name: |
Steven Chu |
