American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate
Steven Chu is an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize and served as the U.S. Secretary of Energy under President Barack Obama. His work in physics and his role in shaping America's energy policy make him a significant figure in both scientific research and government leadership.
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Steven Chu FREng ForMemRS HonFInstP (Chinese: 朱棣文; born February 28, 1948) is an American physicist and former government official. He is a Nobel laureate and was the 12th U.S. secretary of energy. He is currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. He is known for his research at the University of California, Berkeley, and his research at Bell Laboratories and Stanford University regarding the cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, for which he shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips.
Chu served as U.S. Secretary of Energy under the Barack Obama administration from 2009 to 2013. At the time of his appointment as Energy Secretary, Chu 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. Chu resigned as energy secretary on April 22, 2013. He returned to Stanford as Professor of Physics, Molecular & Cellular Physiology, and Energy Science and Engineering.
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