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Steven Chu [2] FREng ForMemRS HonFInstP (Chinese: 朱棣文; born February 28, 1948) [3] is an American physicist and former government official. He is a Nobel laureate and was the 12th U.S. secretary of energy .
Steven Chu. Nobel Prize–winning scientist Steven Chu was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 20, 2009. [172] On January 21, 2009, Chu was sworn in as Secretary of Energy in the Barack Obama administration. Chu is the first person appointed to the Cabinet after having won a Nobel Prize.
Steven Chu, appointed on January 20, 2009, under President Barack Obama, became the first Asian American to hold the position. Chu also served as the longest-serving secretary of energy and was the first individual to join the Cabinet after having received a Nobel Prize. [6]
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is to relinquish his post. His is the latest defection from President Obama's cabinet as the administration transitions to its second term. In a lengthy letter to ...
He succeeded Steven Chu as secretary of energy. Moniz was sworn in as energy secretary on May 21, 2013 by deputy energy secretary Daniel Poneman. Moniz with Japanese minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Hakubun Shimomura in 2013
The transition team has also asked Lisa Kenna, who served as executive secretariat under Mike Pompeo, Trump's second secretary of state during his first term, to take over Bass' duties and fill ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who briefly served as acting CFPB director before Vought, issued similar instructions earlier this month, after which Halperin wrote, “These limitations do not ...
Poneman served as Acting Secretary of Energy following the resignation of Secretary Chu until his successor, Ernest Moniz was confirmed by the Senate and was sworn in. Poneman was a principal of The Scowcroft Group, a consulting firm in Washington, D.C., in the eight years prior to his appointment to the United States Department of Energy.