This article needs additional references or sources for verification. Please help this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.(September 2007) | Steven Chu (Chinese: 朱棣文; pinyin: Zhū Dìwén), born 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri,[1] is an American experimental physicist. He is known for his research in laser cooling and trapping of atoms, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997.[1] His current research is concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the single molecule level. He is currently Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology of University of California, Berkeley and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. As global warming warnings grow more dire, Chu is currently pushing his scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and industry to develop technologies to reverse climate change. Chief in Chu's campaign is an unprecedented research pact reached between UC Berkeley, oil industry giant BP, the Lawrence Berkeley lab and the University of Illinois . Chu's role in promoting the clout of the closely aligned research programs at the lab and UC Berkeley helped convince BP to pick the campus for its $500 million biofuels institute. Image File history File links Dr. Steven Chu giving a seminar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. ...
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Nickname: Location in the state of Missouri Coordinates: , Country State County Independent City Government - Mayor Francis G. Slay (D) Area - City 66. ...
Experimental physics is the part of physics that deals with experiments and observations pertaining to natural/physical phenomena, as opposed to theoretical physics. ...
Laser cooling is a technique that uses light to cool atoms to a very low temperature. ...
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A single-molecule experiment investigates the properties of a single individual molecule that can be isolated or distinguished for the purpose of an experiment or analysis. ...
Molecular and Cellular Biology is an academic journal published by the American Society for Microbiology. ...
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The Berkeley Lab is perched on a hill overlooking the Berkeley central campus and San Francisco Bay. ...
Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earths near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. ...
Nearly $400 million in new lab space will expand energy-related molecular work centered at Lawrence Berkeley that involves a cast of partners around the world. And a $160 million Energy Biosciences Institute to be built in three years and funded by BP will include Chu's separate solar energy program. The expansion will put the Lawrence Berkeley labs and UC Berkeley at the center of the world's push for alternative fuels. Education and career
Steven Chu received his bachelor’s degree in 1970 from the University of Rochester, and his doctorate degree from University of California, Berkeley in 1976.[1] He remained at Berkeley as a Postdoc for two years before joining Bell Labs where he and his several co-workers carried out his Nobel-winning laser cooling work.[1] None of his co-workers, however, were recognized with the Nobel Prize. He left Bell Labs and became a professor of Physics in Stanford University in 1987.[1] Steven Chu has served as the chair of the Physics Department in Stanford University from 1990-1993 and 1999-2001. He was appointed as the director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2004. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...
The University of Rochester (UR) is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian research university located in Rochester, New York. ...
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Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) was the main research and development arm of the United States Bell System. ...
Laser cooling is a technique that uses light to cool atoms to a very low temperature. ...
Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) was the main research and development arm of the United States Bell System. ...
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The Berkeley Lab is perched on a hill overlooking the Berkeley central campus and San Francisco Bay. ...
Chu, with three other professors, was involved with the Bio-X program in Stanford that is intended to bring together scientists from physics, chemistry, biology and engineering background under one roof, the James H. Clark Center. He also played an important role for the funding of Kavli Institute at Stanford. Stanford University Bio-X Initiative is part of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California, adjacent to Palo Alto and Menlo Park. ...
Stanford may refer: Stanford University Places: Stanford, Kentucky Stanford, California, home of Stanford University Stanford Shopping Center Stanford, New York, town in Dutchess County. ...
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Biology studies the variety of life (clockwise from top-left) E. coli, tree fern, gazelle, Goliath beetle Biology (from Greek: βίοÏ, bio, life; and λÏγοÏ, logos, knowledge), also referred to as the biological sciences, is the study of living organisms utilizing the scientific method. ...
The James H. Clark Center (also abbreviated to the Clark Center) at Stanford University is a building, completed in 2003, that houses interdisciplinary research in the biological sciences. ...
Research Steven Chu’s early research focused on atomic physics by developing methods to cool and trap atoms using lasers. He expanded his research area to polymer physics and biophysics while he was at Stanford. His current research focuses on the study of biological molecules and systems at single molecular level. Many Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows from his group have become professors at research universities around the world. Atomic physics (or atom physics) is the field of physics that studies atoms as isolated systems comprised of electrons and an atomic nucleus. ...
Laser cooling is a technique that uses light to cool atoms to a very low temperature. ...
For alternative meanings see laser (disambiguation). ...
Polymer physics is the field of physics associated to the study of polymers, their fluctuations, mechanical properties, as well as the kinetics of reactions involving degradation and polymerisation of polymers and monomers respectively. ...
Biophysics (also biological physics) is an interdisciplinary science that applies the theories and methods of physics, to questions of biology. ...
Stanford may refer: Stanford University Places: Stanford, Kentucky Stanford, California, home of Stanford University Stanford Shopping Center Stanford, New York, town in Dutchess County. ...
A single-molecule experiment investigates the properties of a single individual molecule that can be isolated or distinguished for the purpose of an experiment or analysis. ...
Honors and awards Steven Chu is a co-winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light”, shared with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Sinica. He is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology. Hannes Alfvén (1908â1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ...
Laser cooling is a technique that uses light to cool atoms to a very low temperature. ...
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born April 1, 1933) is a French physicist working at the Ãcole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, where he has also studied physics. ...
Photograph of William Daniel Phillips William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is an American physicist. ...
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Personal life Besides his scientific career, he also developed serious interest in various sports, including baseball, swimming, and cycling. He is currently married to Jean Chu, an Oxford-trained physicist who was previously married to Alexander Fetter, another Stanford physicist. Jean and Steven married shortly after Steven Chu received the Nobel Prize. An interesting sidenote is that Alexander Fetter had in fact lobbied hard for Steven Chu to be hired at Stanford, and was somewhat dismayed when his wife abruptly divorced him to marry his more prestigious colleague. This article is about the sport. ...
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Alexander L. Fetter is an American physicist and just turned Professor Emeritus of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University in California. ...
Chu was the keynote speaker for Boston University's 134th commencement ceremony which took place on May 20, 2007. For similarly-named academic institutions, see Boston (disambiguation). ...
Chu's younger brother, Morgan Chu, is the former Co-Managing Partner at Irell & Manella LLP, a law firm. Morgan Chu is an influential Asian-American lawyer from southern California. ...
Irell & Manella LLP was founded in 1941 and has grown to 220 lawyers. ...
His older brother Gilbert Chu is a professor and researcher of Biochemistry and Medicine at Stanford University. This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ...
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References - ^ a b c d e [1998] "Steven Chu Autobiography", in Tore Frängsmyr: The Nobel Prizes 1997, Les Prix Nobel. Stockholm: The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-06-25.
- http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1997/chu-autobio.html
- Chu S, Hollberg L, Bjorkholm JE, Cable A, Ashkin A. Three-dimensional viscous confinement and cooling of atoms by resonance radiation pressure. Phys Rev Lett. 1985;55(1):48-51
- Chu S, Bjorkholm JE, Ashkin A, Cable A. Experimental observation of optically trapped atoms. Phys Rev Lett. 1986;57(3):314-317.
- Perkins TT, Quake SR, Smith DE, Chu S. Relaxation of a single DNA molecule observed by optical microscopy. Science. 1994;264(5160):822-6.
- Quake SR, Babcock H, Chu S. The dynamics of partially extended single molecules of DNA. Nature. 1997;388(6638):151-4.
- Ha T, Rasnik I, Cheng W, Babcock HP, Gauss GH, Lohman TM, Chu S. Initiation and re-initiation of DNA unwinding by the Escherichia coli Rep helicase. Nature. 2002;419(6907):638-41.
- Zhuang X, Kim H, Pereira MJ, Babcock HP, Walter NG, Chu S. Correlating structural dynamics and function in single ribozyme molecules. Science. 2002;296(5572):1473-6.
- Blanchard SC, Kim HD, Gonzalez RL Jr, Puglisi JD, Chu S. tRNA dynamics on the ribosome during translation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004;101(35):12893-8.
- Uemura S, Dorywalska M, Lee TH, Kim HD, Puglisi JD, Chu S.Peptide bond formation destabilizes Shine-Dalgarno interaction on the ribosome. Nature. 2007;446(7134):454-7.
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Leo Esaki, born Leona Esaki [1] (æ±å´ ç²æ¼å¥ Esaki Reona, born March 12, 1925) is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling. ...
Ivar Giaever (originally spelled Giæver) (born April 5, 1929 in Bergen, Norway) is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian David Josephson for work in solid-state physics. ...
Brian David Josephson (born Cardiff, Wales, UK, January 4, 1940) is a British physicist whose discovery of the Josephson effect as a 22-year-old graduate student won him the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics, which he shared with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever. ...
Sir Martin Ryle (September 27, 1918 – October 14, 1984) was a British radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e. ...
Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, May 11, 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars. ...
Aage Niels Bohr Aage Niels Bohr (born in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 19, 1922) is the son of Margrethe and Niels Bohr. ...
Ben Roy Mottelson (born July 9, 1926) is an American-Danish physicist. ...
Leo James Rainwater (December 9, 1917 - May 31, 1986) was an American physicist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei. ...
| | 1976-2000 | Richter / Ting (1976) • P.W.Anderson / Mott / van Vleck (1977) • Kapitsa / Penzias / Wilson (1978) • Glashow / Salam / Weinberg (1979) • Cronin / Fitch (1980) • Bloembergen / Schawlow / K.Siegbahn (1981) • Wilson (1982) • Chandrasekhar / Fowler (1983) • Rubbia / van der Meer (1984) • von Klitzing (1985) • Ruska / Binnig / Rohrer (1986) • Bednorz / Müller (1987) • Lederman / Schwartz / Steinberger (1988) • Ramsey / Dehmelt / Paul (1989) • Friedman / Kendall / R.E.Taylor (1990) • de Gennes (1991) • Charpak (1992) • Hulse / J.H.Taylor (1993) • Brockhouse / Shull (1994) • Perl / Reines (1995) • D.Lee / Osheroff / Richardson (1996) • Chu / Cohen-Tannoudji / Phillips (1997) • Laughlin / Störmer / Tsui (1998) • 't Hooft / Veltman (1999) • Alferov / Kroemer / Kilby (2000) Burton Richter (Born March 22, 1931) is a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. ...
Samuel Chao Chung Ting (丁肇中 pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng; Wade-Giles: Ting¹ Chao⁴-chung¹) (born January 27, 1936) is a Michigan-born Chinese American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1976 for the discovery of the subatomic J particle with Burton Richter. ...
Philip Warren Anderson (born December 13, 1923) is one of the most influential theoretical physicists of the 20th century. ...
Sir Nevill Francis Mott (September 30, 1905 â August 8, 1996) was a British physicist. ...
John Hasbrouck van Vleck (March 13, 1899 – October 27, 1980) was an American physicist. ...
Semenov (on the right) and Kapitsa (on the left), portrait by Boris Kustodiev, 1921 Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian ÐÑÑÑ ÐÐµÐ¾Ð½Ð¸Ð´Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ ÐапиÑа) (July 9, 1894 â April 8, 1984) was a Russian physicist who discovered superfluidity with contribution from John F. Allen and Don Misener in 1937. ...
Arno Allan Penzias (born April 26, 1933) is an American physicist and winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics. ...
Robert Woodrow Wilson Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American physicist. ...
Sheldon Glashow at Harvard University Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is an American physicist. ...
For other uses, see Abdus Salam (disambiguation). ...
Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. ...
James Watson Cronin (born September 29, 1931) is an American nuclear physicist. ...
Val Logsdon Fitch (born March 10, 1923) is an American nuclear physicist. ...
Nicolaas Bloembergen (born Dordrecht, March 11, 1920) is a Dutch physicist. ...
Arthur Leonard Schawlow Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 â April 28, 1999) was an American physicist. ...
Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn (born April 20, 1918) is a Swedish physicist. ...
Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American theoretical physicist. ...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995) was an Indian-American physicist, astrophysicist and mathematician. ...
There is another William Fowler who was a Scottish poet and uncle of William Drummond of Hawthornden William Alfred Willie Fowler (August 9, 1911 â March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist. ...
Carlo Rubbia (born March 31, 1934) is an Italian physicist. ...
Simon van der Meer (born November 24, 1925) is a Dutch physicist. ...
Klaus von Klitzing, (born June 28, 1943 in German occupied Åroda Wielkopolska) is a German physicist. ...
Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (December 25, 1906âMay 25, 1988) was a German physicist. ...
Gerd Binnig (born July 20, 1947) is a German-born physicist who shared with Heinrich Rohrer half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics for their invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). ...
Heinrich Rohrer (born June 6, 1933) is a Swiss physicist who, with Gerd Binnig, received half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). ...
Johannes Georg Bednorz (born May 16, 1950) is a German physicist who, along with Karl Alex Muller, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at temperatures higher than had previously been thought attainable. ...
Alex Müller in 2001 Karl Alexander Müller (born April 27, 1927) is a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. ...
Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922 in New York) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos. ...
Melvin Schwartz (born November 2, 1932) is an American physicist. ...
Jack Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a physicist. ...
Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. ...
Hans Georg Dehmelt (born September 9, 1922 in Görlitz, Germany) is a German-born American physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. ...
Wolfgang Paul (August 10, 1913 - December 7, 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. ...
Jerome Isaac Friedman (born March 28, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois) is a US physicist. ...
Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 â February 15, 1999) was an American physicist. ...
Richard E. Taylor Professor Richard E. Taylor, CC , FRS , FRSC , Ph. ...
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (October 24, 1932 in Paris â May 18, 2007 in Orsay) was a French physicist and the Nobel laureate in 1991. ...
Georges Charpak (born August 1, 1924) is a Polish-French physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics winner. ...
Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. ...
Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. ...
Bertram Neville Brockhouse (July 15, 1918 â October 13, 2003) was a Nobel prize-winning Canadian physicist. ...
Clifford Glenwood Shull (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 23, 1915 â March 31, 2001) was a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. ...
Martin Lewis Perl (b. ...
Frederick Reines Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918 - August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. ...
David M. Lee (born January 20, 1931) is a physicist whose work on low-temperature helium-3 won him the Nobel Prize in 1996. ...
Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is a American physicist. ...
Robert Coleman Richardson (born June 26, 1937 in Washington D.C.) is an American physicist. ...
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born April 1, 1933) is a French physicist working at the Ãcole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, where he has also studied physics. ...
Photograph of William Daniel Phillips William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is an American physicist. ...
Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is a professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University who, together with Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect. ...
Horst Ludwig Störmer (born April 6, 1949 in Frankfurt, Germany) is a German physicist who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin. ...
Daniel Chee Tsui 崔琦 (pinyin: Cuī Qí)(born February 28, 1939, Henan Province, China) is a Chinese American physicist whose areas of research included electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics. ...
Gerard t Hooft at Harvard University Gerardus (Gerard) t Hooft [ut-hooft] (The prefix ât is pronounced as âutâ and stands for âhetâ) (born July 5, 1946) is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ...
Martinus J.G. Veltman (Tini for short) (born June 27, 1931, Waalwijk) is a 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics, work done at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ...
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (also Alfyorov) (Russian: Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров) (born March 15, 1930) is a Soviet/Russian physicist with a Belarusian origin. ...
Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, received a Ph. ...
Jack St. ...
| | 2001-2025 | Cornell / Ketterle / Wieman (2001) • Davis / Koshiba / Giacconi (2002) • Abrikosov / Ginzburg / Leggett (2003) • Gross / Politzer / Wilczek (2004) • Glauber / Hall / Hänsch (2005) • Mather / Smoot (2006) Carl Wieman (left) and Eric Cornell (right) on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is a physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize the first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. ...
Wolfgang Ketterle (born October 21, 1957, in Heidelberg, Germany) is a German physicist and a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is a Nobel-prize winning American physicist at the University of British Columbia who (with Eric Allin Cornell), in 1995, produced the first true Bose-Einstein condensate. ...
Raymond Davis Jr. ...
Masatoshi Koshiba (å°æ´ æä¿ Koshiba Masatoshi, born on September 19, 1926 in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture -) is a Japanese physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. ...
Riccardo Giacconi (born October 6, 1931) is an Italian-born American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist. ...
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (Russian: ) (born June 25, 1928, in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Soviet/Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. ...
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (Russian: ; born October 4, 1916 in Moscow) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of Academys physics institute (FIAN). ...
Sir Anthony James Leggett, KBE, FRS, (born March 26, 1938 in Camberwell, London, England), is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ...
David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941 in Washington, D.C.) is an American particle physicist and string theorist (although hes stated to the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo, on 09/27/2006, that the second area is included in the first one). ...
Prof. ...
Frank Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is a Nobel prize winning American physicist. ...
Roy Jay Glauber (born 1 September 1925) is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. ...
John L. Hall (born 1934) is a JILA (formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) fellow and Physics lecturer at the University of Colorado at Boulder Physics department. ...
Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (b. ...
John Cromwell Mather (b. ...
George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20, 1945) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John C. Mather for their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. This work helped cement the big-bang theory of...
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