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Steven Chu has been appointed by President-elect Barack Obama as Energy Secretary in his administration.[1]
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A biographical profile distributed by the Obama transition team stated that Chu is "director of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at University of California, Berkeley. Winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1997, Dr. Chu served on the technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs (1978 –1987) and was a professor in the Physics and Applied Physics Departments at Stanford University (1987 – 2004). One of the world's most distinguished scientists, Dr. Chu commands deep respect from his peers, deftly manages a complex governmental organization, and has a keen sense of public service. He successfully applied the techniques he developed in atomic physics to molecular biology, and since 2004, motivated by his deep interest in climate change, he has transformed the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab into a broad and innovative research program on energy technologies. He has a BS in physics from the University of Rochester and his Ph.D from UC-Berkeley."[1]
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- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Barack Obama, "President-elect Barack Obama announces key members of energy and environment team", Media Release, December 15, 2008.
External Articles
- Michael Anastasio, Michael Kluse, Samuel Aronson, Thom Mason, Steven Chu, George H. Miller, John Grossenbacher, Robert Rosner, Thomas Hunter and Sam Bhattacharyya, A Sustainable Energy Future: The Essential Role of Nuclear Energy, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, August 2008.
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- ↑ Steven Mufson and Philip Rucker, "Nobel Physicist Chosen To Be Energy Secretary: Browner, Two Others to Get Climate Posts," Washington Post, December 11, 2008.
