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== Early life and education ==
Chu was born on February 28, 1948, in [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], [[Missouri]],<ref name="Eljera">{{cite news |url = http://asianweek.com/102397/cover_story.html |newspaper = [[AsianWeek]] |title = Stanford Professor Steven Chu graduates to the rank of Nobel laureate |author =Bert Eljera |date = 1997-10-23 |access-date = 2008-12-16 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081215170744/http://asianweek.com/102397/cover_story.html |archive-date = 2008-12-15 }}</ref> with Chinese ancestry from [[Liuhe, Taicang|Liuhe]], [[Taicang]], China.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-07/15/content_8432285.htm |publisher=[[ChinaDaily]] |title= Steven Chu: US ready to lead on climate change |author = Brendan John Worrell |date= 2009-07-15 |access-date= 2009-07-15}}</ref> He attended [[Garden City High School (New York)|Garden City High School]] in [[Garden City, New York]].<ref name="Kerr">{{cite news |url= http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-century_of_science_dissons,0,7662594.story |title= They Began Here |newspaper= [[Newsday]] |author= Kathleen Kerr |date= 2008-07-16 |access-date= 2008-09-17 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080609022451/http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-century_of_science_dissons,0,7662594.story | archive-date= 2008-06-09 }}</ref> He received both a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in [[mathematics]] and a [[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]] in [[physics]] in 1970 from the [[University of Rochester]],<ref>{{cite news |date=December 15, 2008 |title=Rochester Trustee Steven Chu Named Next Energy Secretary |work=University of Rochester |url=http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3290}}</ref> and earned his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in physics from the [[University of California, Berkeley]], under [[Eugene D. Commins]], in 1976,<ref name="thesis-chu-1976">{{cite thesis |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/302807361/ |title=Observation of the forbidden magnetic dipole transition 6²P1/2-7²P1/2 in atomic thallium |date=1976 |publisher=[[University of California, Berkeley]] |type=Ph.D. |last=Chu |first=Steven |via=[[ProQuest]] |url-access=subscription |oclc=892836151}}</ref> during which he was supported by a [[National Science Foundation]] [[NSF-GRF|Graduate Research Fellowship]].<ref name="NSF-GRF">{{cite web |url = http://nsfgrfp.org/why_apply/fellow_profiles/steven_chu |title = Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics |publisher = [[NSF-GRF]] |access-date = 2009-01-25 |archive-date = 2008-11-20 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081120132612/http://nsfgrfp.org/why_apply/fellow_profiles/steven_chu |url-status = dead }}</ref>
Chu comes from a family of highly educated [[white collar worker|white collar]] [[professional]]s and scholars. His father, [[Ju-Chin Chu]], earned a [[D.Eng.|doctorate]] in [[chemical engineering]] from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] and taught at [[Washington University in St. Louis]] and [[Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute]], and his mother studied [[economics]] at MIT. His maternal grandfather, [[Shu-tian Li]], was a [[hydraulic engineer]] who earned a Ph.D. from [[Cornell University]], and was a professor and president of Tianjin University. His mother's uncle, [[Li Shu-hua]], a [[biophysicist]], attended [[University of Paris]] before returning to China.<ref name="Nobel" />
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