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Who is Steven Chu?

Who is Steven Chu?

Who is Steven Chu? In mid-December, then President-elect Barack Obama announced he had tapped Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to run the Energy Dept. Here, in his own words, is Chu speaking on a variety of issues, from climate change and coal to the U.S.'s relationship to China.