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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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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Based on quote from Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Act II, scene v: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
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Born: February 28, 1948 (age 77)
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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