Steven Chu

· Born February 28, 1948

· 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 Stanford University before he won

· His job now is Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• He got is Ph.D in Physics at University of California, Berkeley, 1976

(info courtesy of Nobelprize.com and www.stanford.edu/group/chugroup/steve.html