Steven Chu
Physicist, Organization leader
1948 –
Who is Steven Chu?
Steven Chu is an American physicist who served as the 12th United States Secretary of Energy from 2009 to 2013. Chu is known for his research at Bell Labs in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips. At the time of his appointment as Energy Secretary, he was a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research was concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the single molecule level. Previously, he had been a professor of physics at Stanford University. He is a vocal advocate for more research into renewable energy and nuclear power, arguing that a shift away from fossil fuels is essential to combating climate change. For example, he has conceived of a global "glucose economy", a form of a low-carbon economy, in which glucose from tropical plants is shipped around like oil is today.
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- Born
- Feb 28, 1948
St. Louis - Also known as
- Чу, Стивен
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Jean Chu
(1997 - ) - Lisa Chu-Thielbar
- Jean Chu
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Chinese American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Physics
( - 1976) - Bachelor's degree, University of Rochester
Physics
( - 1970) - Mathematics
- Garden City High School
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- Employment
- United States Department of Energy
(2009/01/21 - 2013/04/22) - Titles in academia, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(2004 - ) - Chairman, Physics Dept, Stanford University
(1999 - 2001) - Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
- Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
- Chairman, Physics Dept, Stanford University
(1990 - 1993) - Professor of Physics, Stanford University
(1987 - 2008) - Bell Labs
(1978 - 1987)
- United States Department of Energy
- Lived in
- St. Louis
(1948/02/28 - )
- St. Louis
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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