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[[Image:SecretaryChu.jpg|right|thumb|150px| Secretary of Energy Steven Chu]]

[[Image:SecretaryChu.jpg|right|thumb|150px| Secretary of Energy Steven Chu]]

'''Steven Chu''' (b. 1948; - ) born in St. Louis, [[Missouri]], he is a 1997 Nobel Prize-winning physicist, former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Obama Administration's Secretary of Energy. The Department of Energy is at the center of U.S. efforts to end our dependence on foreign oil, roll back climate change and create new "green" jobs, using stimulus funds already passed by Congress.  He seeks technological solutions to energy issues:<ref> Zakaria (2009)</ref>

'''Steven Chu''' (b. 1948; - ) born in St. Louis, [[Missouri]], he is a 1997 Nobel Prize-winning physicist, former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the [[Obama Administration]]'s [[United States Secretary of Energy|Secretary of Energy]]. The [[Department of Energy]] is at the center of U.S. efforts to end our dependence on foreign oil, roll back climate change and create new "green" jobs, using stimulus funds already passed by Congress.  He seeks technological solutions to energy issues:<ref> Zakaria (2009)</ref>

:"Our dependency on foreign oil, our national security, our economic prosperity, and the climate-change issues—these aren't ultimately political questions. This is a way into the 21st century, a way to regain our technological leadership, regain our high- quality manufacturing leadership that we have lost, all of these things, as well as helping save the world."

:"Our dependency on foreign oil, our national security, our economic prosperity, and the climate-change issues—these aren't ultimately political questions. This is a way into the 21st century, a way to regain our technological leadership, regain our high- quality manufacturing leadership that we have lost, all of these things, as well as helping save the world."