Native name 朱汝瑾 Name Ju-Chin Chu Residence United States Role Chemical engineer | Nationality United States Fields Chemical Engineering Spouse Ching-Chen Li | |
Born December 14, 1919Taicang, Jiangsu, China ( 1919-12-14 ) Died November 15, 2000, United States of America Children Steven Chu, Gilbert Chu, Morgan Chu Alma mater Tsinghua University, National Southwestern Associated University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institution Washington University in St. Louis, Polytechnic Institute of New York University | ||
Ju-Chin Chu (Chinese: 朱汝瑾; pinyin: Zhū Rǔjǐn; December 14, 1919 – November 15, 2000) was a Chinese American chemical engineer and father of Steven Chu. He was born in Taicang, Jiangsu, China. Chu 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. 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. He became a Academia Sinica member in 1964.
Personal life
Ju-Chin Chu's wife Ching-Chen Li (daughter of Shu-tian Li) also studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in economics. His second born son Steven Chu is a Nobel laureate and the twelfth United States Secretary of Energy in the Obama Administration. His eldest son Gilbert Chu is a professor and researcher of biochemistry and medicine at Stanford University, while the youngest Morgan Chu, is a partner and the former Co-Managing Partner at the law firm Irell & Manella LLP.