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Call Number: SC0828
Creator:
Chu, Steven.
Title: Steven Chu papers
Dates: 1975-2004
Bulk Dates: 1975-2004
Physical Description:
4 Linear feet
Summary: Papers pertain primarily to topics in physics and include notes, overhead transparencies from his lectures, reprints, articles,
memos, proposals, correspondence, charts, and drawings. Subjects include electric dipole moment, diode lasers, and dye lasers;
and there are some materials pertaining to departmental matters. Also included in the collection is the 1989 paper by P. Galison,
B. Hevly, and R. Lowen, "Controlling the Monster - Stanford and the Growth of Physics Research, 1935-1962."
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Steven Chu Papers (SC0828). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Steven Chu, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997, earned his A.B. in mathematics (1970) and his B.S. in physics
(1970) at the University of Rochester and his Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Berkeley, 1976. He was a member
of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories, 1978-1983, and then head of the Quantum Electronics Research Department, AT&T
Bell Laboratories, 1983-1987. He joined the faculty at Stanford in 1987, was appointed Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor
of Physics and Applied Physics in 1990, and served two terms as Chair of the Physics Department. He left Stanford in 2004
to become director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Papers pertain primarily to topics in physics and include notes, overhead transparencies from his lectures, reprints, articles,
memos, proposals, correspondence, charts, and drawings. Subjects include electric dipole moment, diode lasers, and dye lasers;
and there are some materials pertaining to departmental matters. Also included in the collection is the 1989 paper by P. Galison,
B. Hevly, and R. Lowen, "Controlling the Monster - Stanford and the Growth of Physics Research, 1935-1962."
Chu, Steven.
Stanford University. Dept. of Physics.
Lasers.
Physics--Study and teaching.