Steven Chu

Steven Chu , (1948 with Saint Louis, Missouri) is a American physicist Nobel Prize of physics in 1997.

Biography

Steven Chu receives its Bachelor in 1970 of the Université of Rochester and its doctorate of the the University of California to Berkeley in 1976, it remains two years in Berkeley as post-doctoral researcher before joining the Laboratoires Beautiful. It is in these laboratories that him and its team works on the Refroidissement of atoms per laser which are worth the to him Nobel Prize of physics in 1997 “for the development of methods of cooling and of capture of atoms by Laser”. It leaves the Bell laboratories in 1987 to become professor of physics to the Université Stanford of which it directs the department of physics of 1990 to 1993 and of 1999 to 2001. It is engaged as director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2004.

It took part in the conferences of the Mind and Life Institute, the purpose of which is to promote a dialog between science and Buddhism.

Beside its scientific career it develops a serious interest for the sport, Base-ball, Natation and Cyclisme.

Research

The searchs for Chu went mainly on the atomic Physique by developing methods to cool and to capture Atome S by using Laser S. During its stay with Stanford, its research extended to the Physique polymers and the Biophysique.

Chu with three other professors with launching the program Bio-X, an interdisciplinary approach of the Biology and Medicine.

Rewards

Apart from its Nobel already mentioned, divided with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Philips, Chu is member many learned societies: the American Physical Society, Optical Society off America, National Academy off Sciences etc

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