BREAKING EXTRA: STEVEN CHU, BERKELEY NOBEL PHYSICIST, TO HEAD DOE

The newest Obama cabinet selection will please New Energy insiders. It is another indication of the incoming administration's respect for science and the President-elect's commitment to getting the smartest advisors.

Nobel Physicist Chosen To Be Energy Secretary
Steven Mufson and Philip Rucker, December 11, 2008 (Washington Post)

The new Secretary-designate/U.S. Department of Energy: Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel laureate in physics and head of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Pic from The Washington Post. (click to enlarge)

"President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who heads the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to be the next energy secretary, and he has picked veteran regulators from diverse backgrounds to fill three other key jobs on his environmental and climate-change team..."