Word: chu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PHYSICS: Steven Chu, William Phillips and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. Atoms in the air can move at thousands of miles an hour--far too fast for scientists to get a good look at them. Chu and Phillips, of the U.S., and Cohen-Tannoudji, of France, were cited for developing new ways to slow down and "freeze" atoms at temperatures near absolute zero with blasts of laser light, giving researchers the opportunity for more detailed studies...
...particularly illuminating scene, the bondmaid Chu, who has been charged since youth with the care of "The Old One," --an ancient and literally undying presence in the house of Wu--must come to terms with his demise. Although she suffered his abuse for years and has developed a keen resentment for the old man as a result, Chu finds herself, in his absence, wandering aimlessly around the palace is the days before her eventual suicide. Lim's portrait of this depressing symbiosis is but one way in which the dichotomy between slave and slave owner is blurred, and often, transcended...
...Chu added that such predictions are not always accurate because many people are overlooked in the awards...
...Chu said that he did not alter his research goals in order to get a Nobel prize...
...Chu predicted that while his research in the coming months "is going to slow down," its direction will not change...