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The
President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
PAUL (CHING-WU) CHU
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Professor of Physics |
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University of Houston |
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Houston, Texas 77004 USA |
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Male
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Physical Sciences |
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1988 |
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"For his wide-ranging congributions in achieving stable superconductivity at -290 degrees F, above the critical temperature of liquid nitrogen (-321 degrees F); and for his particiaption in the discovery of another superconducting compound, this one stable at a higher temperature (-243 de4grees F) and not using rare-earth elements." |
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Presented by President Reagan in a White House ceremony on July 15, 1988. |
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