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 Steven Chu

Steven Chu

As of January 21, 2009: U.S. Secretary of Energy.
For current information, see DOE site:
http://www.energy.gov/organization/dr_steven_chu.htm

http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/chu.html

As of August 1, 2004, Professor at UC Berkeley:
http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/faculty/chu.html
and Director of LBNL (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Professor, Stanford Physics Department and Stanford Applied Physics Department, through August 31, 2008 (on leave from Aug. 1, 2004 to August 31, 2008).  Now an Emeritus Professor.

Stanford email: schu@stanford.edu
Stanford Admin Staff:Ping Feng, room 232, phone: 723-9555
Stanford Chu Group web site (c.2005)

Career History (to 2004)

  • Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics 
  • A.B. and B.S., 1970, University of Rochester 
  • Ph.D., 1976, University of California at Berkeley 
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, U.C. Berkeley, 1976-78 
  • Member, Technical Staff, AT&T, 1978-83 
  • Head of Quantum Electronic Dept., AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1983-87 
  • Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, 1987-2008 
  • Morris Loeb Lecturer, 1988 
  • Special Visitor to JILA, 1989, 1999 
  • Visiting Professor, College de France, 1990
  • Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2004+ 

Awards (to 2004)

  • Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1987 
  • Fellow of the Optical Society of America, 1990 
  • Am. Phys. Soc., Broida Prize for Laser Spectroscopy, 1987 
  • APS/AAPT Richtmyer Memorial Prize Lecture, 1990 
  • Co-winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Science, 1993 
  • Am. Phys. Soc., Arthur Schawlow Prize for Laser Science, 1994 
  • Opt. Soc. Am., William F. Meggers Award for Spectroscopy, 1994 
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992 
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1993 
  • Member of the Academia Sinica, 1994 
  • Science for art Prize and Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, 1995 
  • Guggenhein fellow, 1996 
  • Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1997 
  • Member of the American Philosophical Society, 1998
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member,1998
  • Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology, Foreign member, 1998

Stanford Students and Post-Docs, c.2008: 


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