Background
He was born on February 12, 1941 in Changsha, Hunan, China.
He was born on February 12, 1941 in Changsha, Hunan, China.
In 1949 Paul Ching-Wu Chu was taken to Taiwan where he grew up and received his formative education.
Chu attended Cheng-Kung University from 1958 to 1962, where he obtained his B. S. degree.
He earned his Master's degree in physics at Fordham University in the Bronx (1965).
Then he moved to the University of California at San Diego in order to study solid-state physics in the laboratory of Bern T. Matthias (1918 - 1980), where he earned his Ph. D. in 1968.
After two years' industrial research with Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, New Jersey, Chu served as Assistant Professor of Physics at Cleveland State University.
He was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor and Professor of Physics.
He later took up an appointment as Professor of Physics at the University of Houston and became Director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity.
He has served as the TLL Temple Chair of Science at the same university since 1987.
He also served as a Consultant and Visiting Staff Member at Bell Laboratories, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, the Marshall Space Flight Center, Argonne National Laboratory, and DuPont at various times.
He was appointed as Member of the Advisory Board at Aurora Imaging Technology, Inc. and serves as an Advisor of Panton Incorporated.
In 2007, he was appointed as a Member of the US President's Committee on the National Medal of Science, responsible for the selection of recipients for this top scientific honor in the US. His research activities extend beyond superconductivity to magnetism and dielectrics. His work has resulted in the publication of more than 530 papers in refereed journals.
Ching-wu Chu is known as a National Medal of Science recipient in 1988 "for his wide-ranging contributions in achieving stable superconductivity at -290 degrees Fahrenheit, above the critical temperature of liquid nitrogen (-321 degrees F), and for his participation in the discovery of another superconducting compound, this one stable at a higher temperature (-243 degrees F) and not using rare-earth elements. "
US National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academia Sinica, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Russian Academy of Engineering
