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I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

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I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, That's nice — and when are you going to see me next?

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If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

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The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Hans Hofmann

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Born: February 28, 1948 (age 78)
Bio: Steven Chu is an American physicist. He is known for his research at Bell Labs and Stanford University regarding the cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips.

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