Ju-Chin Chu (Chinese: 朱汝瑾; pinyin: Zhū Rújǐn; December 14, 1919 – November 15, 2000) was a Chinese-American chemical engineer. He was the father of Steven Chu.
Ju-Chin Chu | |
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| Born | December 14, 1919 Liuhe, Taicang, China |
| Died | November 15, 2000 (aged 80) |
| Education | Tsinghua University (BA) National Southwestern Associated University (MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Spouse | Ching-Chen Li |
| Children | Steven Gilbert Morgan |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemical engineering |
| Institutions | Washington University Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute |
| Thesis | Chlorination of methane by hydrogen chloride (1946) |
Life and career
editChu was born in Liuhe, Taicang, Suzhou. He attended Suzhou High School, Tsinghua University and National Southwestern Associated University in China before he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Ph.D. education in 1946.[1] After graduating from MIT, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis from 1946 to 1949, at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute from 1949 to 1966, and at Virginia Tech from 1967 to 1972.[2][3] He became an Academia Sinica member in 1964.[4]
Personal life
editJu-Chin Chu's wife Ching-Chen Li also studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in economics. His second born son Steven Chu is a Nobel laureate in physics and the twelfth United States Secretary of Energy in the Obama administration. His eldest son Gilbert Chu is a professor of biochemistry and medicine at Stanford University, while the youngest Morgan Chu, is a patent lawyer who is a partner and the former Co-Managing Partner at the law firm Irell & Manella LLP.[3][5]
References
edit- ^ Chu, Ju-chin (1946). Chlorination of methane by hydrogen chloride (Ph.D.). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. OCLC 27142118 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Who's Who, eTaiwanNews, retrieved 2014-01-02.
- ^ a b Tore Frängsmyr, ed. (1998). "Steven Chu Autobiography". The Nobel Prizes 1997. Les Prix Nobel. Stockholm: The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
- ^ 美能源部長與中華文化資源：一門俊傑父子院士. Duowei News (in Chinese). December 18, 2008. Archived from the original on January 1, 2014. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
- ^ "Morgan Chu". Irell & Manella LLP. Retrieved 2008-12-16.