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Steven Chu

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Steven Chu (born February 28, 1948) is an American physicist and former government official. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips for research on the cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, conducted at Bell Laboratories and Stanford University. Chu later served as United States Secretary of Energy under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013.

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Birth Year
1948 1
Nationality
United States 1
Birthplace
St. Louis, United States 1
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Physics 1
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  • P27 (country of citizenship): United States
    Q30
  • P19 (place of birth): St. Louis, United States
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Steven Chu (Wikipedia)
  • Works In: Physics, Lead sentence
    Steven Chu (; born February 28, 1948) is an American physicist and former government official.
  • Member Of: Royal Society, Article text
    Chu was elected an international fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering UK in 2011, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2014. His nomination read
  • Member Of: National Academy of Sciences, Article text
    He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Scien
  • Member Of: American Physical Society, Categories
    Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society
  • Member Of: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Categories
    Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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