Guide to the Steven Chu Papers
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Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
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:
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Cite As
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.
Description of the Collection
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."
Access Terms
Chu, Steven.
Stanford University. Dept. of Physics.
Lasers.
Physics--Study and teaching.
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 1
Dipole Cooling and Electron Measurement
Box 1, Folder 2
Electron Measurement & Comparison of Electron & Positron g Factors
Box 1, Folder 3
Fret Chirp for Slowing Atoms
Box 1, Folder 4
Harvey Gould--Electric Dipole Moment Experiments
Box 1, Folder 5
EDM Calculations (includes "Micro-gravity Atomic Clocks and an Improved Search of the Cesium Electric Dipole Moment"--proposal
to NASA March 1995)
Box 1, Folder 7
Correspondence from John Sapirstein and Allen Mills
1989-90
Box 1, Folder 8
Muonium charts, articles, notes, correspondence
1977-87
Box 1, Folder 10
Congratulations and other Messages
1985, 1997-2004
Box 2, Folder 1
Circular States & PS Dropping
Box 2, Folder 4
PS 15-25 Calculations for Data Analysis
Box 2, Folder 6
Controlling the Monster--Stanford and the Growth of Physics Research, 1935-1962 by P. Galison, B. Hevly, and R. Lowen, 1989
Box 2, Folder 9
Robert Irwin, Disc--correspondence
1998
Box 3, Folder 1
Faculty Salaries/Retirement
Box 3, Folder 4
Assorted Physics News/Updates (U. of Chicago, U of Toronto, etc)
Box 3, Folder 6
Miscellaneous Publications Involving Chu
Box 3, Folder 7
Other Miscellaneous Documents--Correspondence, Newsletters, Booklets, etc.
Box 4, Folder 1
Smithsonian, letters from Paul Forman, physics curator, 1996
Box 4, Folder 5
Bell Labs, correspondence
1987-91
Box 4, Folder 6
Correspondence re various talks, post-Nobel prize
Box 5, Folder 4
Bistable Fabry-Perot Resonator
Box 5, Folder 7
Berry's Phase: articles about
Box 5, Folder 8
Bates/Damgaard, article 1949
Box 5, Folder 10
B Ba B2 O4 [B-Barium Borate]
Box 5, Folder 13
Charge Neutrality, articles about
Box 6, Folder 1
Chupp, T.E., article
1993
Box 6, Folder 2
Collision Broadening of Spectral Lines
Box 6, Folder 4
Coherent Population Trapping
Box 6, Folder 5
Coherent Optical Spectroscopy
Box 6, Folder 11
Laser Diodes for Spectroscopy
Box 7, Folder 4
Absorption Spectra for Various Dyes, Mostly Coumarins
Box 7, Folder 6
Danzmann, Karsten--articles by
Box 7, Folder 9
DYE Lasers ed F.P Schafer
Box 7, Folder 12
Dye Laser Survey Papers--Snavely
Box 8, Folder 1
Transparencies 1 [lecture notes]
