About Steven
Steven Chu is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Born February 28, 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri, he earned degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of Rochester and a PhD in physics from UC Berkeley. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 for developing methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. Chu served as the 12th U.S.
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- Laser cooling and optical trapping of atoms
- 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
- U.S. Secretary of Energy 2009-2013
- Single-molecule biophysics research
- Optical tweezers for biomolecules
- Atomic fountain clocks and atom interferometry
- Research in renewable energy and carbon capture
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