Abstract
PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA made public last week several key energy and environmental appointments. Among them are Nobel Prize-winning physicist and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Director Steven Chu to lead the Department of Energy and former commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Lisa P. Jackson to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Chu, 60, has been a vocal advocate for increased basic research funding and has led efforts at LBNL and in the scientific community to intensify energy and climate-change-related research. He brings strong science, research, and leadership skills to DOE, say scientists familiar with his work. He received a doctorate in physics in 1976 from the University of California, Berkeley, conducted research at AT&T Bell Laboratories after graduation, and was a member of the Stanford University department of physics from 1987 until 2004, when he was appointed to lead LBNL. He comes from a family of scholars who emigrated from China in the ...
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