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Steven Chu [2] FREng ForMemRS HonFInstP (Chinese: 朱棣文; born February 28, 1948) [3] is an American physicist and former government official. He is a Nobel laureate and was the 12th U.S. secretary of energy .
Steven Chu became the first Asian American to hold the position on January 20, 2009, serving under president Barack Obama. Chu was also the longest-serving secretary of energy and the first individual to join the Cabinet after having received a Nobel Prize. [7]
Steven Chu (朱棣文) – 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, US Secretary of Energy (2009) Daniel Chee Tsui (崔琦) – 1998 Nobel laureate, Physics; Roger Y. Tsien (錢永健) – 2008 Nobel laureate, Chemistry; Charles K. Kao (高锟) – 2009 Nobel laureate in Physics who pioneered the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications
Judy Chu, first Chinese American woman elected to the U.S. Congress. U.S. House of Representatives from California's 27th district; Steven Chu, 12th United States Secretary of Energy from 2009 to 2013; Sada Cumber, first United States Ambassador to the OIC; Charles Djou, major, U.S. Army. Former Congressman from Hawaii.
Steven Chu: Physics 1948– "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light". [12] St. Louis, Missouri, United States [13] 1998 崔琦: Daniel C. Tsui: Physics 1939– "for discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" [14] Pingdingshan, Henan, China 2000 高行健: Gao Xingjian: Literature ...
In mid-May 2010, United States Secretary of Energy Steven Chu assembled a team of nuclear physicists, including hydrogen bomb designer Richard Garwin and Sandia National Laboratories director Tom Hunter. [55] On May 24, BP ruled out conventional explosives, saying that if blasts failed to clog the well, "We would have denied ourselves all other ...
Steven Arroyo, the prolific, attention-grabbing force behind Cobras & Matadors, Church & State, Escuela Taqueria, Malo, Boxer, Burger She Wrote, Cobra Lily, Potato Chips Deli and more, died at age ...
In an interview, Steven Chu described how Ashkin had first envisioned optical tweezing as a method for trapping atoms. [5] Ashkin was able to trap larger particles (10 to 10,000 nanometers in diameter) but it fell to Chu to extend these techniques to the trapping of neutral atoms (0.1 nanometers in diameter) using resonant laser light and a ...