Chu Ching-wu

Chu Ching-wu

Chu Ching-wu (also Paul Chu ; Chinese  朱經武 , Pinyin Zhū ​​Jīngwǔ ; born February 12, 1941 in Changsha , Hunan , Republic of China ) is an American physicist of Chinese origin.

Chu spent his childhood in Taiwan and received his BSc from Cheng Kung National University in 1962 . In 1965 he received an MSc from Fordham University and a Ph.D. 1968 at the University of California, San Diego . After two years of research at Bell Laboratories , Chu became an assistant professor of physics at Cleveland State University in 1970 and professor until 1975. Since 1979 he has been a professor at the University of Houston . From 2001 to 2009, Chu was President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology .

His research areas are superconductivity , magnetism and dielectric .

Together with Wu Maw-Kuen , he discovered superconductivity in yttrium-barium-copper oxide over 77 Kelvin in 1987 .

He is married to Shiing-Shen Chern's daughter.

Awards

• 1978 Fellow of the American Physical Society
• 1988 Comstock Prize in Physics
• 1988 National Medal of Science
• 1989 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
• 1989 Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1989 Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (foreign member)
• 1989 Fellow of the Academia Sinica
• 1989 Fellow of the Russian Academy of Engineering (RAE)
• 1989 Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences
• 1990 Best Researcher in the US by US News & World Report
• International Prize for New Materials

Web links

Commons : Chu Ching-wu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ching Chu on the University of Houston website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MK Wu, JR Ashburn, CJ Torng, PH Hor, RL Meng, L. Gao, ZJ Huang, YQ Wang, and CW Chu: Superconductivity at 93 K in a new Mixed-Phase Y-Ba-Cu-O Compound System at Ambient pressure . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. . 58, No. 9, 1987, pp. 908-910. bibcode : 1987PhRvL..58..908W . doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.58.908 . PMID 10035069 .
2. ^ Comstock Prize in Physics. National Academy of Sciences, accessed January 14, 2016 . 
3. ^ National Science Foundation - The President's National Medal of Science. Retrieved October 9, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter C. (PDF; 1.1 MB) American Academy of Arts and Sciences, accessed on October 9, 2012 (English). 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chu is the family name here, Ching-wu is the first name.