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In choosing Steven Chu as his energy secretary(能源部长), Barack Obama has chosen one of the most prominent U．S．scientists of using science to deal with global warming(全球变暖)．
Steven Chu was born in St．Louis, Missouri, in 1948．His father was a college teacher．At that time, they were only the third Chinese family to live there．In high school, Chu played tennis and was on the school club．He took his first physics class in his senior year at Garden City High school and became interested in it．
Steven Chu got his first doctor’s degree in maths and physics in 1970．Then he went to California for another doctor’s degree．In 1978, Chu worked in Bell Lab where he developed ways to cool and trap atoms using a laser(用激光冷却和俘获原子)．In 1997, he got the Nobel Prize for physics for this．He left Stanford in 2004, after he was made head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California．As the head of the national lab, Chu has tried to find scientific ways to climate c hange and soon become a member of the Climate Council working for a new global climate treaty(气候条约)for 2009．
He also insists on the need to end the unnecessary waste of energy．“If I were King of the world, I would spend the next ten years on energy efficiency and conservation(节能和环保)．”he said last year．
On December 11th, 2008, Barack Obama made him energy secretary．He would be the first Chinese-American to run the department of Energy and devote himself to sustainable(可持续发展的)energy．
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