Paul Ching Wu Chu (Chinese: 朱經武; born December 2, 1941) is a Taiwanese-American physicist specializing in superconductivity, magnetism, and dielectrics.

In 1962, Chu earned his Bachelor of Science degree from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

[3] After two years of performing industrial research with Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, New Jersey, Chu was appointed assistant professor of physics at Cleveland State University in 1970.

In 1987, he and Maw-Kuen Wu announced the historic discovery of superconductivity above 77 K in YBCO,[4] touching off a frenzy of scientific excitement exemplified by the Woodstock of physics, at which he was a featured presenter.

[citation needed] On November 17, 2014, an IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing plaque was presented to University of Houston for Chu and his team's 1987 discovery of high temperature superconductors.

[10][11] On September 1, 2001, Chu succeeded Professor Chia-Wei Woo as the president of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.