Steven Chu
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Energy Department Secretary |
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Nominated: Jan. 20, 2009 Confirmed: Jan. 20, 2009 Announced: Dec. 15, 2008 |
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Bio
- Age: 64
- Education: University of California at Berkeley, PhD (1976); University of Rochester, BS, AB (1970)
- From: Berkeley, CA
- Ethnicity: Asian
- Gender: Male
Most recently director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics and molecular biology at University of California, Berkeley, Chu won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1997. He has a BS in physics from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D from UC-Berkeley.
Last Job
- University of California at Berkeley, professor and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Other Jobs
- Stanford University, professor
- AT&T Bell Laboratories, Quantum Electronic department
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Financial Disclosure
View Steven Chu's official financial disclosure statements, which describe the sources, types and amounts of income earned in a given year.
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