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Benjamin Chu | |
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| Born | March 3, 1932 |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1968) Sloan Fellowship (1968) |
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| Education | St. Norbert College (BS) Cornell University (MS, PhD) |
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| Institutions | Stony Brook University |
Benjamin Thomas Chu (born March 3,1932) is a Chinese-born American chemist. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Research at Stony Brook University.
Chu received his secondary education at schools in Shanghai and Hong Kong. He moved to the United States in 1953 to attended St. Norbert College on scholarship. Chu earned a doctorate in radiochemistry from Cornell University in 1959,
Chu started work as a research associate of Peter Debye. [1] [2] He began his teaching career at the University of Kansas in 1962. He joined the State University of New York at Stony Brook faculty in 1968. That same year,he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Sloan Fellowship. Chu was named a leading professor of chemistry in 1988,and appointed to a distinguished professorship in 1992. Chu has received the Humboldt Research Award twice,in 1976 and 1992,and was elected fellow of the American Physical Society in 1992. [1]
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