Ed Lu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ed Lu
Occupation	Physicist
Date Of Birth	Jul 1, 1963(1963-07-01)
Age	61
Birthplace	Springfield
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Cancer

Ed Lu Biography

Ed Lu is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on July 1, 1963 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.

Raised in Webster, New York, to a Chinese-American family. Lu attended R. L. Thomas High School, where he was a member of the wrestling team and graduated in 1980. Later, Lu earned a degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University where he lettered in wrestling. He then received a doctoral degree in applied physics from Stanford University in 1989. Lu is a member of the Psi chapter of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at Cornell.

Lu became a specialist in solar physics and did postdoctoral work at the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, Hawaii before being selected for the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1994.

Ed Lu Net Worth

Ed Lu is one of the richest Physicist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ed Lu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Edward Tsang “Ed” Lu (simplified Chinese: 卢杰 ; traditional Chinese: 盧傑 ; pinyin: Lú Jié ; born July 1, 1963) is an American physicist and former NASA astronaut. He flew on two Space Shuttle flights, and made an extended stay aboard the International Space Station.

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In 2007, Lu retired from NASA to become the program manager of Google’s Advanced Projects Team. In 2002, while still at NASA, Lu co-founded the B612 Foundation, dedicated to protecting the Earth from asteroid strikes, later serving as its chairman. As of 2020, he is its Executive Director.

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Dmitry Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ed Lu celebrates birthday on July 1 of every year.

On June 28, 2012, Lu, with Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart and G. Scott Hubbard, Astronautics professor at Stanford University announced plans to build and operate the first privately-funded deep space mission called Sentinel. Their non-profit B612 Foundation will launch an infrared space telescope in orbit around the Sun, where from a distance as great as 270,000,000 kilometers (170,000,000 mi) from Earth, where it would detect and track asteroids and other near-Earth objects posing threats to the planet.