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Steven Chu was born in St. Louis, Missouri on this date.
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citation Steven Chu earned his Ph.D in physics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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citation In 1978, Chu began working at Bell Laboratories.
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Dr. Chu left Bell Labs and became a professor of physics at Stanford on this year.
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citation Steven Chu jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips in 1997 for the cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light.
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Under the Barack Obama Administration, Steven Chu was voted and sworn in as Secretary of Energy.
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On this date of this year, Secretary Chu resigned as the longest serving Secretary of Energy.
