Chu is Nobel Prize winner, Berkeley lab director
Steven Chu, nominated by President-elect Barack Obama to be the new Department of Energy secretary, appeared before a Senate committee this morning in Washington, D.C.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee conducted the confirmation hearing on Chu, currently the director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
To listen to audio from the hearing, click here.
A Nobel Laureate physicist-he shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1997 for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light-Chu also is a professor of physics and molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
