CHU AS POSSIBLE ENERGY SECRETARY

When was the last time that the US had a Nobel prize winning scientist as Energy Secretary? It seems that Steven Chu, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics is a possible candidate for Energy Secretary. Seems like the country could do with some hard-headed scientific sense in an Energy Secretary in a time of real energy crisis. Chu won the prize for the very important technique of cooling atoms with lasers. Chu is a leader of a DOE lab (Lawrence Berkeley) and also a proponent of nuclear which would make the choice better. (link: Sovietologist)