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Old 03-11-2012, 04:45 AM   #11
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Steven Chu 12th United States Secretary of Energy Incumbent Assumed office
January 21, 2009 President Barack Obama Deputy Daniel Poneman Preceded by Samuel Bodman Personal details Born February 28, 1948 (1948-02-28) (age 64)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Political party Democratic Party[1][2] Spouse(s) Lisa Chu-Thielbar (Divorced)
Jean Fetter (1997–present) Alma mater University of Rochester
University of California, Berkeley Website Official website









Chu (Chinese: 朱棣文; pinyin: Zhū Dìwén, born February 28, 1948)[3] is an American physicist and the 12th United States Secretary of Energy. Chu is known for his research at Bell Labs in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips.[3] At the time of his appointment as Energy Secretary, he was a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research was concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the single molecule level.[4] Previously, he had been a professor of physics at Stanford University. He is a vocal advocate for more research into renewable energy and nuclear power, arguing that a shift away from fossil fuels is essential to combating climate change.[5][6][7] For example, he has conceived of a global "glucose economy", a form of a low-carbon economy, in which glucose from tropical plants is shipped around like oil is today.[8]A GOAT WOULD BE BETTER FITTED TO THE POSITION.....



NOT THAT WE NEED AN "ENERGY SECRETARY".
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