Steven Chu receives 1996 Guggenheim Award

Professor Steven Chu was chosen as a recipient of the 1996 Guggenheim Fellowship Awards. The prestigious awards are given to artists, scientists and scholars who have shown "unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future achievement." Chu has made numerous contributions in the fields of atomic physics, laser spectroscopy and quantum physics. He is well known for his pioneering work in the manipulation, cooling and trapping of neutral particles by laser light. The techniques he demonstrated for laser cooling and trapping atoms and other microscopic objects are being applied in wide-ranging areas of physics, chemistry and biology. Chu will use the Guggenheim award to study the use of atomic force microscopy to observe the movement of enzymes in real time.

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