Paul Chu (né Ching-Wu Chu; 朱經武; pinyin: Zhū Jīngwǔ) is an American-Chinese scientist, and was the President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2001 to 2009. He spent his childhood in Taiwan and received his Bachelor of Science degree from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 1962. Chu currently serves as Professor of Physics and T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the...
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Paul Chu (né Ching-Wu Chu; 朱經武; pinyin: Zhū Jīngwǔ) is an American-Chinese scientist, and was the President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2001 to 2009. He spent his childhood in Taiwan and received his Bachelor of Science degree from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 1962. Chu currently serves as Professor of Physics and T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Houston.
Although born in Changsha, Hunan, his family was from Taishan, Guangdong Province.
Born in Changsha, Hunan in 1941, Paul Chu earned his Master of Science degree from Fordham University in 1965. He completed his Ph.D degree at the University of California at San Diego in 1968.
After two years of performing industrial research with Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, New Jersey, Prof. Chu was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at Cleveland State University in 1970. He was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor...
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