Steven Chu Selected by Obama to Serve as Energy Secretary for the U.S

President-Elect Barack Obama Has Made Another Wise Decision by Choosing to Nominate Steven Chu for Secretary of Energy

Steven Chu has now become the nomination from President-Elect Barack Obama to be the next Energy Secretary for the United States. Steven Chu is best known as a Nobel Prize winner in the field of Physics, who took home the medal in 1997. He has been doing a lot of research in various fields, including research on developing technologies to reverse climate change. His ties to the next President of the United States are that he has been working with the University of Illinois on a recent project that is geared towards expanding energy-related molecules.

The choice of Steven Chu is a definite departure from selecting someone within the spectrum of U.S. politics, and really shows that Obama is willing to step outside of the normal chain of selection with his nomination of Steven Chu. Currently, Chu runs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, and will be stepping in to a situation where results will probably be demanded of him very quickly. Having the 1997 Nobel Prize win under his belt already shows that Chu knows what he is doing, and couple that with his time served as the chair of the Physics Department at Stanford, and you have an intelligent man who knows science.

The choice of Steven Chu may surprise a lot of people in Washington, as well as people watching as Barack Obama makes the nominations for his cabinet. He isn't your typical choice for a position like this, but when it comes to new forms of energy, it seems that Chu could really be a "diamond in the rough" type of choice for the seat. His work in the past on different energy concepts could breathe new life into Washington, and steer things in a whole new direction when it comes to innovations in the fuel and energy departments. Though he doesn't fit the stereotype of the usual Secretary of Energy for the United States, this nomination is going to turn out to be a genius move by the President-Elect.