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Chu Ching-wu

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Chinese-American physicist

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Paul Ching Wu Chu is a Taiwanese-American physicist specializing in superconductivity, magnetism, and dielectrics. L. Temple Chair of Science in the Physics Department at the University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

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2001John Fritz Medal
1988National Medal of Science
1988Comstock Prize in Physics
1988James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
1978Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong

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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.

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Born 1941 · age 85
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