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Welcome to the Persons of Color PageUAMS recognizes the United States Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu, during Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month
Dr. Chu, a Chinese American, was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Chinese immigrant parents, Ju Chin Chu and Ching Chen Li, who came to the United States to get their degrees. He is the second Chinese American to be a member of the U.S. Cabinet. Dr. Chu grew up on Long Island, New York, where he taught himself to play tennis and to pole vault. He has said, "I was raised in a family where education was not merely emphasized, but was our raison d’etre. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.'s in science or engineering, and it was taken for granted that the next generation of Chu's were to follow the family tradition. When the dust settled, my two brothers and four cousins collected three MDs, four Ph.D.s and a law degree. I could only manage a single advanced degree." After graduating from high school, Dr. Chu attended the University of Rochester, where he earned his B.S. in physics and A.B. in mathematics. He was later awarded a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley and continued his post-doctoral work there until he accepted a position with Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. He later became a professor of applied physics at Stanford University. It was during his time at Bell Laboratories when Dr. Chu first began to conduct the experiments to develop a method to slow and capture atoms for study by using six laser beams and working with a hot gas of sodium atoms to cool and trap atoms. For his work in this field, Dr. Chu shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics with Drs. William Phillips and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. As a physicist, energy lab manager and energy efficiency expert, Dr. Chu brings a unique set of qualifications to his position as Secretary of Energy. He is a vocal advocate for conducting more research into alternative energy and nuclear power and has emphasized the future role of America's science students in environmental planning and global initiative. Dr. Chu is married and has two sons.
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As
the first Nobel laureate to serve in a presidential cabinet, Dr. Steven Chu, the
12th United States Secretary of Energy, is committed to a clean
energy economy.