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    Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0
    Image number: RS.18555

    Portrait of Steven Chu

    Date
    2014
    Sitter
    Steven Chu (1948) , Physicist
    Creator
    Debbie Rowe (British) , Photographer
    Object type
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Steven Chu, arms by his sides, looking directly out at the camera. Against a grey background. He wears a blue shirt, a yellow tie with a paisley pattern, and a black suit jacket with a pin on his left lapel.

    Professor Steven Chu (b.1948), American physicist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2014. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips in 1997 for their development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
    Object history
    Taken at the Royal Society Admissions Day Ceremony, July 2014.
    Associated place
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