· He won the prize for “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light" in 1997
· He split it 3 ways, along with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips
· His job was the Chair of the Physics Department at
· His job now is Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- He got is Ph.D in Physics at
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He won the Nobel prize in 1997 in Physics
i couldn't get a picture on here but here is the link: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/images/faculty/chu-bw.jpg
He got rejected from Ivy League schools so he went to Rochester University for his Bachelor's degree
What won him the Nobel Prize was trapping and cooling atoms with lasers. Atoms are too fast to track normally but he slowed them down with lasers and made them much easier to study.
His father is Ju Chin Chu and his mother is Ching Chen Li. They came over from China to study. Steven Chu has a brother, also.
Worked at Bell Laboratories after he got his Ph. D. Then he got a job at Stanford and he still works there.
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