Chu Ching-wu
Chu Ching -wu (also Paul Chu ;朱经武Chinese, Pinyin Zhū Jīngwǔ; born February 12, 1941 in Changsha, Hunan, China) is an American physicist of Chinese origin.
Chu spent his childhood in Taiwan and was awarded the 1962 BSc at National Cheng Kung University. In 1965 he received his MSc at Fordham University and the Ph.D. 1968 at the University of California, San Diego. After two years of research at Bell Laboratories in 1970 Chu assistant professor of physics at Cleveland State University and a professor until 1975. Since 1979 he is professor at the University of Houston. From 2001 to 2009, Chu President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
His research interests are superconductivity, magnetism and dielectric.
Together with Maw - Kuen Wu 1987 he discovered superconductivity in yttrium barium copper oxide about 77 Kelvin.
He is married to the daughter of Shiing - Shen Chern.