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Steven Chu | |
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| 12th United States Secretary of Energy | |
| In office January 21, 2009 – April 22, 2013 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Deputy | Daniel Poneman |
| Preceded by | Samuel Bodman |
| Succeeded by | Ernest Moniz |
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| Born | February 28, 1948 St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | University of Rochester University of California, Berkeley |
| Profession | physicist |
| Website | U.S. Secretary of Energy website |
Steven Chu (born February 28, 1948) is an American physicist. He was the 12th United States Secretary of Energy from 2009 to 2013. 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.
Chu is the first Nobel Prize winner and the second Chinese American to hold a post in the United States Cabinet. Before becoming the United States Secretary of Energy, 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.
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