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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Paul (Ching-Wu) Chu

Title:

Professor of Physics

Affiliation:

University of Houston

Houston,Texas 77004 USA

Gender:

Male

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1988

Citation:

"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."

Presented by President Reagan in a White House ceremony on July 15, 1988.

 

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