December 10, 1997 · Stockholm, Sweden

Steven Chu Receives the Nobel Prize

achievement

Physicist Steven Chu shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light; he later became the first Asian American US Secretary of Energy. (Shares Dec 10, Nobel Day, with Khorana and Chandrasekhar.)

Sources

nobelprize.org nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1997/summary
news.stanford.edu news.stanford.edu/stories/1997/10/steven-chu-wins-nobel-prize

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