| Steven Chu  Born: 28-Feb-1948
Birthplace: St. Louis, MO
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Asian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Trapped atoms with laser light Father: Ju Chin Chu
Mother: Ching Chen Li
Brother: Gilbert Chu (professor of biochemistry)
Brother: Morgan Chu (lawyer)
Wife: Jean Chu (physicist)
University: BS Physics and AB Math, University of Rochester (1970)
University: PhD Physics, University of California at Berkeley (1976)
Scholar: Fellow, University of California at Berkeley (1976-78)
Professor: Applied Physics, Stanford University (1987-2004)
Administrator: Chair, Physics, Stanford University (1990-93 and 1999-2001)
Administrator: Trustee, University of Rochester
Nobel Prize for Physics 1997 (with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Director (2004-)
Bell Laboratories Director of Quantum Electronics Research (1983-87)
Bell Laboratories (1978-83)
Member of the Board of NVIDIA (2004-)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1992
American Philosophical Society 1998
American Physical Society 1987
John Kerry for President
Kerry Victory 2004
National Academy of Sciences 1993
Science Debate 2008
Phi Beta Kappa Society 1969
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation Board of Directors
Guggenheim Fellowship 1996
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