Prof. Steven Chu named director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The University of California Board of Regents named on June 17 Steven Chu, professor in the physics and applied physics departments at Stanford University and a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, as director of the UC-managed Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The 56-year-old Chu, who is also a foreign member of CAS, becomes the first Asian American to head one of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) national labs.
Chu, who earned his doctorate from UC Berkeley, is currently the Theodore and Francis Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford, where he has been on the faculty since 1987.
