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3 unusual facts about Chu Ching-wu


Chu Ching-wu

After two years of performing industrial research with Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, New Jersey, Chu was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at Cleveland State University in 1970.

In 1987 he and Maw-Kuen Wu announced the historic discovery of superconductivity above 77 K in YBCO, touching off a frenzy of scientific excitement exemplified by the Woodstock of physics, at which he was a featured presenter.

Paul Chu

Chu Ching-wu, Paul C.W. Chu, physicist known for work on superconductivity, and president of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology



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