Nobel Physicist at University April 17

Akron, Ohio, April 2, 1998 — Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu is the keynote speaker for the 1998 Waldo Semon Lecture and Undergraduate Research Award Symposium at 11 a.m., April 17 at The University of Akron Goodyear Polymer Center.

Chu has been a member of the physics faculty at Stanford University since 1987 and is currently the Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics. Prior to joining Stanford, he served on the technical staff and later headed the Quantum Electronics Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Chu's research interests include atom optics techniques and the development and use of laser cooling and atom trapping, for which he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for physics. Other areas of Chu's research include experimental atomic physics, quantum electronics, laser physics, biophysics and polymer physics.

The BFGoodrich Company sponsors the annual Semon program to promote and recognize outstanding undergraduate research in polymer science and polymer engineering in the United States. Five finalists for the Waldo Semon Undergraduate Research Award in Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering present seminars describing their research. The winner receives a $2,000 prize.

The lecture and symposium are named for Waldo Semon, a pioneering polymer scientist inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame and Goodrich's director of polymer research from 1954-1961.

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