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Steven Chu Short Biography
Steven Chu is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology in the Medical School at Stanford University. He is currently the Chair of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and its past President. He has published papers in atomic physics, polymer physics, biophysics, molecular biology, ultrasound imaging, nanoparticle synthesis, batteries and other clean energy technologies.
He served as U.S. Secretary of Energy from January 2009 through April 2013. Prior to that, he was director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, professor of Physics and of Molecular and Cell Biology (2004 to 2009) at UC Berkeley, the Francis and Theodore Geballe professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University (1987 to 2009), a member of the technical staff and head of the Quantum Electronics Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories (1978 – 1987).
Dr. Chu is the co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to laser co
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Steven Chu
American physicist and former U.S. Secretary of Energy (born 1948)
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Official portrait, 2009 | |
| In office January 21, 2009 – April 22, 2013 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Deputy | Daniel Poneman |
| Preceded by | Samuel Bodman |
| Succeeded by | Ernest Moniz |
| Born | (1948-02-28) February 28, 1948 (age 76) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic[1] |
| Spouse(s) | Lisa Chu-Thielbar (divorced) Jean Fetter (m. 1997) |
| Children | 2 |
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| Education | University of Rochester (BA, BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) |
| Profession | Physicist |
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| Website | University website |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Atomic physics, biological physics, polymer physics |
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| Thesis | Observation of the Forbidden Magnetic Dipole Transition 62P1/2→72P1/2 in Atomic Thallium (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Eugene D. Commins |
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BiographyProfessor Steven Chu is a physicist, a Nobel Laureate, and has served as US Secretary of Energy. He is currently William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics, and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Professor Chu holds a BA in mathematics and a BSc in physics from the University of Rochester, and a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined Bell Labs in 1978, and was appointed head of the Quantum Electronics Research Department in 1983. He then joined Stanford University in 1987, served as Chair of its Physics Department from 1990 to 1993 and from 1999 to 2001, and helped initiate Bio-X, linking the physical and biological sciences with engineering and medicine. Professor Chu received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for laser cooling and trapping of atoms together with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips. Other contributions included the first optical tweezers manipulation of biomolecules, precision atom interferometry based on optical pulses of l Copyright ©backaid.pages.dev 2025 | |