Steven Chu: the idea of cooling atoms with light sat untried for a decade — "In 1983 we didn't know it was gonna be important."

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4

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Steven Chu on calling his mother after being awarded the Nobel Prize: "That's nice, but when are you gonna visit me next?"

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4

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Steven Chu: as Energy Secretary he found a transmission line took 11 years to approve but only 2 to build — so when someone had to take charge of cutting it to 3, he raised his hand.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4

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Steven Chu on optical tweezers: Art Ashkin trapped E. coli with light in the mid-1980s; Chu's bet was to grab a single biomolecule via a polystyrene sphere — two years later it worked.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4

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Steven Chu on laser cooling: his boss Chuck Shank told him he had earned the right to try — but it wouldn't work. Within a year, it worked.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4

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Steven Chu: AI's energy and learning vs. the human brain. Did you know children master complex skills with vastly less data and energy than AI? It's a powerful lesson in efficiency.

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And Secretary Chu's response to the Onion revelations: https://m.facebook.com/stevenchu/posts/139778246186083?refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FQZF5dsgi&refid=9&_rdr