Steven Chu, one of today’s prominent physicists, was born on the 28th of February 1948 in St Louis, Missouri. He was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 for conducting a research regarding the cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light. At present, Steven Chu serves as the 12th Secretary of Energy for the United States.

Way before he was appointed as energy secretary, Steven Chu was taught physics as well as cellular and molecular biology at the University of California in Berkeley. Aside from that, he also served as the director for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Stephen Chu strongly expresses his advocacy for conducting more research about nuclear power and alternative energy. He believes that looking for new alternatives for fossil fuel is necessary to combat global warming.

Aside from keeping himself busy with his career in the scientific field, Steven Chu also spends some of his time playing a few of his favorite sports including cycling, swimming, and baseball. As a child, Steven Chu had learned how to play tennis by reading a book. As a result, he became a second-string substitute for his school for about three years.

Steven Chu’s ancestry came from the Jiangsu province in China. He is a graduate from the University of Rochester, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1970. A few years later, he received his doctorate degree at the University of California, Berkeley.

His excellence in the scientific field comes as no surprise since Steven Chu came from a family of scholars. His father is a chemical engineer who used to teach at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and the Washington University in St Louis. His mother on the other hand, had studied economics. His older brother, Gilbert Chu, is a biochemistry and medicine professor at Stanford University while his younger brother, Morgan Chu, serves as a partner at the Irell & Manella law firm.