Commemoration Site at Former Residence of Nobel Laureate's Ancestors

The site of the former residence of Chinese American Professor Steven Chu's ancestors has been recently set up for commemoration in Taicang City, east China's Jiangsu Province.

Steven Chu, born in 1948, is now a Professor of physics at Stanford University in the United States. He is also an academician of the American Academy of Sciences and a foreign- nationality member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Chu shared the 1997 Nobel physics prize with Doctor William D. Phillips and French Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.






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