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STEVEN CHU

1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics

for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.

• Born: 1948
• Place of birth: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
• Education: Ph.D.'76 from the University of California, Berkeley
• Residence: California, U.S.A.
• Affiliation: Physics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A.
  • Email: schu@leland.stanford.edu
  • Phone: (415)-723-3571
  • Fax: (415)-723-9173

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• Prize co-recipient: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
• Prize co-recipient: William D. Phillips
• Official award announcement and brief background
• Additional background on the discovery
• Professor Chu's Home Page at Stanford University (submitted by Marcos Montes)
• Stanford University Press Release
• An article in Stanford Online Report

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• CNN coverage of the 1997 Physics Nobel Prize
• MSNBC's coverage of the Prize
• Atom cooling and trapping
• Atom Optics, Cooling, and Trapping
• Links to Interesting Activites in the Field of Laser, Quantum, Atomic, and Molecular Physics
• Die Nobelpreise 1997 in deutscher Sprache (submitted by Spektrum der Wissenschaft)
• We Chinese are proud of Mr.Chu, whose origin is China, to win this world top prize. (submitted by Ning Shi)
• We Chinese are proud of Dr. Chu, whose origin is China, won this world top honor. (submitted by Ning Shi)
• Laser Spectroscopy - Papers contributed by Steven Chu
• An atom cooling and trapping research lab (submitted by Kristen)
• DR.A.VISWANATHAN AND SOLID STATE IONICS (ENERGY PHYSICS) (submitted by DR.A.VISWANATHAN)
• DR.A.VISWANATHAN AND SOLID STATE IONICS (ENERGY PHYSICS) (submitted by DR.A.VISWANATHAN)
• Steven Chu – Autobiography (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
• Steven Chu' Research Group (submitted by Hendry Izaac Elim)
• Steven Chu bio (submitted by El)
• development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. (submitted by Valka)
• Biography of Steven Chu (submitted by Steven)
• Steven Chu Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
• Steven Chu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (submitted by Vini)

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