Paul (Ching-Wu) Chu

Recipient
Year
Citation

Paul (Ching-Wu)
Chu

Professor of Physics

University of Houston
1988
Physics

For his wide-ranging congributions in achieving stable superconductivity at -290 degrees F, above the critical temperature of liquid nitrogen (-321 degrees F); and for his particiaption in the discovery of another superconducting compound, this one stable at a higher temperature (-243 de4grees F) and not using rare-earth elements.

Presented by President Reagan in a White House ceremony on July 15, 1988.