Steven Chu

Steven Chu (born February 28, 1948 in St. Louis) is a Chinese American physicist who, with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips, was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for their research in cooling and trapping atoms using laser light. He is the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

External links

• LBL homepage
• Information about Steven Chu
• Stanford homepage
• Termite Guts Can Save The Planet
• development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.