“The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.”
As quoted by James Gleick in Lasers slow atom for scrutiny, The New York Times, July 13, 1986: Explaining how atoms are cooled.
Steven Chu , é um físico estadunidense de ascendência chinesa.Juntamente com Claude Cohen-Tannoudji e William D. Phillips, recebeu o Nobel de Física de 1997.
Atualmente é o diretor do Laboratório da Radiação de Berkeley.
Foi nomeado para o cargo de Secretário de Energia da administração de Barack Obama.
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“The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.”
As quoted by James Gleick in Lasers slow atom for scrutiny, The New York Times, July 13, 1986: Explaining how atoms are cooled.
NY Times, April 16, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19wwln-q4-t.html?_r=4
Interview by Spencer Michels, The NewsHour, PBS, 2 May 2007 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/jan-june07/climatechange_05-02.html