COSMOLOGIES AND WORLD VIEWS PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES Symposium Introduction Detailed Schedule of Events
Steve Chu Moderator, first symposium session Steven Chu is the Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Professor Chu's research is primarily in atomic physics, quantum electronics, polymer and bio-physics. His thesis and postdoctoral work at Berkeley, the observation of parity non-conservation in atomic transitions in 1978, was one of the early confirmations of the Weinberg-Salam-Glashow theory that unifies the weak and electromagnetic forces. and an electron. Other contributions include the study of exciton energy transfer in solids, anomalous pulse propagation in absorbing medium, and the development of a transmission line, near-field microscope. Chu has been awarded the Herbert Broida Prize for Spectroscopy (American Physical Society, 1987), Richtmyer Memorial Prize Lecturer (APS/AAPT, 1990), co-winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Science (1993), the Arthur Schawlow Prize for Laser Science (APS, 1994), the William Meggers Award for Laser Spectroscopy (Optical Society of America, 1994), the Science for Art Prize (Louis Vitton - Möet Hennesey, 1995), and co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1997). Chu received a Humboldt Senior Scientist award (1995) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academica Sinica, and is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Korean Academy of Science and Engineering. | |
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