As Steven Chu, who runs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, has been chosen by President-elect Barack Obama as energy secretary, all will like to know more about him… i.e. his family, qualification, achievements etc,.
NAME - Steven Chu.
AGE - 60
BIRTH DATE - Feb. 28, 1948
LOCATION - St. Louis.
EXPERIENCE - Professor of physics and molecular and cell biology, University of California, Berkeley; director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2004-present; chair, physics department, Stanford University, 1990-1993 and 1999-2001; head, quantum electronics research department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, N.J., 1983-1987; technical staff, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J., 1978-1983.
EDUCATION - A.B. degrees in physics and mathematics, University of Rochester; Ph.D in physics, University of Califorinia, Berkeley, 1976.
FAMILY - Wife, Jean Chu; two sons.
QUOTE - "I told my boss .... `Guess what? I just trapped an atom.' He said, `Great. What are you going to do with it?' I said, `I don't know, but it's great!'" — That accomplishment, and years of work that followed, won Chu a share of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1997.
Now I think that you all had known much about Mr. Steven Chu and this will be helpful info for. More to come so stay in touch…