:Ju-Chin Chu
{{Short description|Chinese-American chemical engineer}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Ju-Chin Chu
| image = File:Ju-Chin Chu.jpeg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1919|12|14}}
| birth_place = Liuhe, Taicang, China
| death_date = {{death date and age|2000|11|15|1919|12|14}}
| death_place =
| education = Tsinghua University (BA)
National Southwestern Associated University (MA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
| spouse = Ching-Chen Li
| children = Steven
Gilbert
Morgan
| fields = Chemical engineering
| workplaces = Washington University
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
| thesis_title = Chlorination of methane by hydrogen chloride
| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/301824198/
| thesis_year = 1946
}}
Ju-Chin Chu ({{zh|s=朱汝瑾|p=Zhū Rújǐn}}; December 14, 1919 – November 15, 2000) was a Chinese-American chemical engineer. He was the father of Steven Chu.
Life and career
Chu was born in Liuhe, Taicang, Suzhou. He 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.{{cite thesis |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/301824198/ |title=Chlorination of methane by hydrogen chloride |date=1946 |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |type=Ph.D. |last=Chu |first=Ju-chin |via=ProQuest |url-access=subscription |oclc=27142118}} 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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140103073500/http://www.etaiwannews.com/who/index.php?view=339&category=6&lang=tc Who's Who], eTaiwanNews, retrieved 2014-01-02.{{cite book | editor = Tore Frängsmyr | title = The Nobel Prizes 1997 | chapter-url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1997/chu-autobio.html | accessdate = 2007-06-25 | series = Les Prix Nobel | publisher = The Nobel Foundation | location = Stockholm |chapter= Steven Chu Autobiography | year=1998}} He became an Academia Sinica member in 1964.{{cite news|script-title=zh:美能源部長與中華文化資源：一門俊傑父子院士|url=http://www.dwnews.com/big5/news/2008-12-18/4609344.html|accessdate=December 31, 2013|newspaper=Duowei News |date=December 18, 2008|language=Chinese|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101214125/http://www.dwnews.com/big5/news/2008-12-18/4609344.html|archivedate=January 1, 2014}}
Personal life
Ju-Chin Chu's wife Ching-Chen Li also studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in economics. His second born son Steven Chu is a Nobel laureate in physics and the twelfth United States Secretary of Energy in the Obama administration. His eldest son Gilbert Chu is a professor of biochemistry and medicine at Stanford University, while the youngest Morgan Chu, is a patent lawyer who is a partner and the former Co-Managing Partner at the law firm Irell & Manella LLP.{{cite web|publisher=Irell & Manella LLP|url=http://www.irell.com/professionals-22.html|title=Morgan Chu|accessdate=2008-12-16}}
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Category:American chemical engineers
Category:Chinese emigrants to the United States
Category:Engineers from Jiangsu
Category:MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
Category:Members of Academia Sinica
Category:National Southwestern Associated University alumni
Category:Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty
Category:Scientists from Suzhou
Category:Tsinghua University alumni
Category:Virginia Tech faculty
Category:Washington University in St. Louis faculty