Steven Chu
Steven Chu
Steven Chuis an American physicist who is known for his research at Bell Labs and Stanford University in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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