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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.

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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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