Dec 12th, 2008 · Barack Obama revealed his choices for several energy posts this week, including Nobel laureate physicist Steven Chu for energy secretary. Darren Samuelsohn, senior reporter for Greenwire, analyzes the picks and what the appointments may mean for future environmental policy.
Dec 11th, 2008 · President-elect Barack Obama is said to have chosen Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu to be Energy secretary. Chu was one of three scientists who shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1997 for work in cooling and trapping atoms with laser light.
Dec 10th, 2008 · President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu to serve as his energy secretary. An official announcement is expected in Chicago Thursday.
Dec 10th, 2008 · President-elect Barack Obama has decided to name Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as energy secretary and former EPA chief Carol Browner to a new White House post coordinating energy, climate and environmental issues, Democratic officials said Wednesday.
Dec 5th, 2008 · From gravity to the greenhouse effect, Richard Muller, a physicist at University of California at Berkeley, details the basic physics President-elect Barack Obama should know. Muller is author of Physics for Future Presidents and teaches a class at Berkeley by the same name.
Oct 27th, 2008 · It's hard for the average person to understand one of Albert Einstein's great insights: that time is not the same for everybody everywhere. Theoretical physicist Brian Greene explains and explores in Icarus at the Edge of Time.
Oct 17th, 2008 · As the nation struggles to respond to the economic crisis, will research and development funding suffer? Rush Holt, plasma physicist and member of the U.S. House of Representatives, explains how troubled economic times may affect the outlook for science and technology in the U.S.
Oct 7th, 2008 · Three physicists, one American and two Japanese, share the prize for their pioneering work in exploring the universe's lack of symmetry — something that made life possible.