Steven Chu received a share of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for cooling and trapping atoms with laser light. These methods allowed exceptionally slow atoms to be studied and enabled new precision measurements.
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Steven Chu
Nobel Prize history for Steven Chu based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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