Word: chu
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...thought it might be a hoax because I got the call from a local news station," said Chu in an interview with The Crimson last night...
...Chu--who was recruited by the Harvard physics department in 1987, but turned the offer down to work at Stanford--said that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences had been unable to contact him that morning because of some confusion over the local area code...
...Chu and two of his colleagues, along with recipients of the five other Nobel prizes awarded over the past two weeks, have become inexorably associated with what is perhaps the best-known prize for contributions in science, the arts and humanitarian work...
...Nobel prizes in the sciences have traditionally been awarded for research which has been accepted by the scientific community over a number of years. Chu's work on the use of lasers to cool atoms was conducted...
Because of the generally long lag between scientific achievements and their recognition by the Nobel committees, Chu said that "as [atom cooling] became a common lab tool, there was a chorus of people who were telling me that I should be getting the Nobel prize...