"Nobel Prize in Physics" Steven Chu Signed 8X10 Color Photo Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction the "Nobel Prize in Physics" Steven Chu Signed 8X10 Color Photo.
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Steven Chu
(
Chinese
:
朱棣文
;
pinyin
:
Zhū Dìwén
, born February 28, 1948)
]
is an American
physicist
and a former
government official
. He is known for his research at
Bell Labs
and
Stanford University
regarding the
cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light
, for which he won the
Nobel Prize in Physics
in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
and
William Daniel Phillips
.Chu served as the 12th
United States Secretary of Energy
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.