# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chu-ching-wu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:00:53.049Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chu-ching-wu"
name: "Chu Ching-wu"
slug: "chu-ching-wu"
description: "Paul Ching Wu Chu is a Taiwanese-American physicist specializing in superconductivity, magnetism, and dielectrics. He is a professor of physics and T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science in the Physics Department at the University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. He was the president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2001 to 2009. In 1987, he was one of the first scientists to demonstrate high-temperature superconductivity."
tagline: "Chinese-American physicist"
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country:
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birthDate: "1941-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump