"Nobel Prize in Physics" Steven Chu Hand Signed Announcement Todd Mueller COA

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Steven Chu
(born February 28, 1948) is an American
physicist
, Nobel laureate, and the 12th
United States Secretary of Energy
. He is currently the
William R. Kenan Jr.
Professor of
Physics
and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at
Stanford University
. He is known for his research at the
University of California, Berkeley
, and his research at
Bell Laboratories
and
Stanford University
regarding the
cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light
, for which he shared the 1997
Nobel Prize in Physics
with
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
and
William Daniel Phillips
.
Chu served as
United States Secretary of Energy
under the administration of President
Barack Obama
from 2009 to 2013. At the time of his appointment as Energy Secretary, Chu was a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at the
University of California, Berkeley
, and the director of the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
, where his research was concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the
single molecule level
. Chu resigned as energy secretary on April 22, 2013. He returned to Stanford as Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology. Chu is a vocal advocate for more research into
renewable energy
and
nuclear power
, arguing that a shift away from
fossil fuels
is essential to combating
climate change
. He has conceived of a global "glucose economy", a form of a
low-carbon economy
, in which
glucose
from tropical plants is shipped around like
oil
is today.
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On February 22, 2019, Chu began a one-year term as president of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science