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| Steven Chu | |
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| 12th United States Secretary of Energy | |
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| Assumed office January 21, 2009 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Deputy | Daniel Poneman |
| Preceded by | Samuel Bodman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 28, 1948 St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Political party | Democratic Party[1] |
| Spouse(s) | Lisa Chu-Thielbar (Divorced) Jean Fetter (1997–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Rochester University of California, Berkeley |
| Profession | Experimental physicist |
| Website | U.S. Secretary of Energy website |
Steven Chu (born February 28, 1948)[2] is an American physicist and the 12th United States Secretary of Energy.
Chu won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 (with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips).[2] It was awarded for his research at Bell Labs in cooling and trapping atoms with laser light.
Chu is the first Nobel prizewinner and the second Chinese American to hold a post in the American Cabinet.[3][4] He became Energy Secretary in 2009. Before that, he was a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[5] Before teaching at Berkeley, he was a professor of physics at Stanford University.
He argues for more research into alternative energy and nuclear power. He thinks the world should shift away from fossil fuels to help with climate change.[6][7][8] For example, he discusses a global "glucose economy". This is a form of a low-carbon economy, in which glucose from tropical plants is shipped around like oil is today.[9]
Secretary of Energy [change]
His nomination to be Secretary of Energy was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 20, 2009.[10] On January 21, 2009, Chu was sworn in as Secretary of Energy in the Barack Obama administration.
He continues to work on science while working in the Energy Department. He wrote a paper on gravitational redshift published in Nature (463, 926–929) in Feb 2010[11] and a second one co-authored in July 2010.[12][13]
Under his leadership in 2010 the Department of Energy updated the water usage regulations on toilets and showers.[14]
In March 2011 Chu said that federal regulators should not delay approving construction licenses for planned U.S. nuclear power plants because of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. "I think those things can proceed," Chu told reporters on Capitol Hill, referring to construction license applications pending at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.[15]
In August 2011, Chu praised an advisory panel’s report on curbing the environmental risks of natural-gas development. Chu responded to the panel’s report on hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing breaks up rock to get more oil and gas out of the ground. The report recommendations include: greater data collection of air and water data, “rigorous” air pollution standards and mandatory disclosure of chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process. “The report ... recommends a range of tools for implementing these measures, including regulation, continuous improvement in best practices by industry, and ongoing research and development,” Chu said in a statement. “I will be working closely with my colleagues in the Administration to review the recommendations and to chart a path for continued development of this vital energy resource in a safe manner,” he added.[16]
Republicans in Congress have attacked Chu for changing a $535 million federal loan to Solyndra, a solar energy company. When the company went bankrupt in 2011, the government lost the money. A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee questioned Chu in 2011 about the loan.[17][18][19]
References [change]
- ↑ Polifiact.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tore Frängsmyr, ed. (1998). "Steven Chu Autobiography". The Nobel Prizes 1997. Les Prix Nobel. Stockholm: The Nobel Foundation. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1997/chu-autobio.html. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
- ↑ Jake Tapper (2008-12-11). "A Nobel Prize Winner in the Cabinet". ABC News. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/12/a-nobel-prize-w.html. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
- ↑ Sky Canaves (2009-02-26). "Commerce Nominee a Locke In China". The Wall Street Journal. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal/2009/02/26/commerce-nominee-a-locke-in-china/. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
- ↑ "Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy". United States Department of Energy. http://www.energy.gov/organization/dr_steven_chu.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
- ↑ H. Josef Hebert (2008-12-08). "Energy secretary pick argues for new fuel sources". Associated Press. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008492740_apchuprofile.html. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
- ↑ Sarah Jane Tribble, 'Nuclear: Dark horse energy alternative,' Oakland Tribune, 2007-06-18. [1]
- ↑ Directors of DOE National Laboratories (August 2008). "A Sustainable Energy Future: The Essential Role of Nuclear Energy". Department of Energy. http://www.ne.doe.gov/pdfFiles/rpt_SustainableEnergyFuture_Aug2008.pdf.
- ↑ "A scientist who is on tap, on top". St. Petersberg Times. July 26, 2009. http://www.tampabay.com/news/perspective/article1020822.ece. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
- ↑ Nicholas Johnston (2009-01-20). "Senate Confirms Seven Obama Nominees, Delays Clinton". Bloomberg L.P.. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aFtD02yqOtMw. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
- ↑ A precision measurement of the gravitational redshift by the interference of matter waves Nature 18-Feb-2010. According to Nature he worked on this "during nights, weekends and on planes - after putting in 70-80 hours a week as energy secretary" (Nature 463 p867)
- ↑ Borestein, Seth (2010-07-07). "Energy secretary's hobby is nano science". MSNBC. Associated Press. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38130342/ns/technology_and_science-science/. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
- ↑ Pertsinidis, Alexandros; Yunxiang Zhang, Steven Chu (2010). "Subnanometre single-molecule localization, registration and distance measurements". Nature. advance online publication (7306): 647–51. doi:10.1038/nature09163. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 20613725.
- ↑ Time for a Shower (Before It’s Too Late) | The Weekly Standard
- ↑ "Japan crisis should not delay new U.S. reactors: Chu". Reuters. 2011-03-15. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/us-usa-nuclear-licenses-idUSTRE72E6PM20110315.
- ↑ Chu vows to ‘chart a path’ for safe gas drilling
- ↑ http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-11-20/opinion/30423943_1_ceo-brian-harrison-solyndra-loan-steven-chu
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/us/politics/energy-secretary-stephen-chu-to-defend-solyndra-loan-to-congress.html
- ↑ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68643.html
Other websites [change]
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- Secretary of Energy Steven Chu at United States Department of Energy
- The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 from Nobel Prize with biography, lecture, diploma, photos, symposia and links
- Bio from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Energy@Berkeley: Solutions for Global Warming, Berkeley University, November 13, 2007 includes link to event on YouTube
- BP Makes Berkeley World Center for Biofuels press release on the BP collaboration February 16, 2007
- Alternative Energy Sources March 28, 2005, Chu's PowerPoint presentation
- Boulder’s physicists give Chu thumbs-up Article on other Nobel laureates' reactions to Chu as secretary of energy
- Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy
- UCTV Programs with Steven Chu
- Bio and personal page from Stanford University Department of Physics
- Steven Chu: Uncovering the secret life of molecules from Stanford [Online] Report (July 16, 1997)
- Chu's biophysics research group at University of California, Berkeley
- Growing energy: Berkeley Lab's Steve Chu on what termite guts have to do with global warming from UC Berkeley News (September 30, 2005)
- Chu's lecture on the Helios Project for renewable energy at YouTube March 12, 2008
- "Climate Disasters a 'Significant Possibility' Interview with Steve Chu at Copenhagen Climate Council, November 3, 2008.
- Interview with Steven Chu from "Growing Energy" from the PBS series e² energy
- Interview, April 19, 2009
- Works by or about Steven Chu in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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