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Steven Chu

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Steven Chu (朱棣文; born February 28, 1948) is an American physicist and former government official. He is a Nobel laureate and was the 12th U.S. secretary of energy. He is currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Steven Chu is the 315th most popular physicist (down from 286th in 2019), the 1,660th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,302nd in 2019) and the 71st most popular American Physicist. Learn more about Steven Chu's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Steven Chu ranks 315 out of 851. Before her are Andre Geim, Otto Robert Frisch, Dennis W. Sciama, Christoph Scheiner, Daniel C. Tsui, and John Vincent Atanasoff. After her are Hagen Kleinert, Pierre Louis Dulong, Shuji Nakamura, Félix Savart, John Tyndall, and Hélène Langevin-Joliot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Steven Chu ranks 98. Before her are Beppe Grillo, Alan Parsons, Chris de Burgh, Stephen Schwartz, Rory Gallagher, and Pim Fortuyn. After her are Agnieszka Holland, Jerzy Kukuczka, Mahesh Bhatt, Michel Suleiman, Stevie Nicks, and Alia Al-Hussein.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Steven Chu ranks 1,660 out of 20,380. Before her are Danielle Steel (1947), Timothy Leary (1920), Bruce Beutler (1957), Jack Horner (1946), Bob Kane (1915), and Edwin G. Krebs (1918). After her are Jeff Bennett (1962), Aaron Burr (1756), George Akerlof (1940), Frank Jarvis (1878), Herbert Blomstedt (1927), and Ron Jeremy (1953).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Steven Chu ranks 71. Before her are Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), John Clauser (1942), Harry Daghlian (1921), Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), Henry Way Kendall (1926), and John Vincent Atanasoff (1903). After her are Carl Wieman (1951), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), John G. Trump (1907), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), Frank Wilczek (1951), and Nathan Rosen (1909).

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