Steven Chu
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1997for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light
- Citizenship
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United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 2/28/1948
- place of birth
- St. Louis
- Age
- 78 years
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- position held
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- United States Secretary of Energy
- end time: 4/22/2013
- start time: 1/21/2009
- United States Secretary of Energy
- employer
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Bell Labs
- Stanford University
- occupation
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- climate activist
- politician
- physicist
- university teacher
- minister
- member of
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- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- Royal Society of London
- National Academy of Sciences
- Academia Sinica
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Philosophical Society
- American Physical Society
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- educated at
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- University of Rochester
- University of California, Berkeley
- Garden City High School
- work location
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- Stanford
- field of work
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- atomic physics