Obama to name Nobel winner as Energy secretary

Obama to name Nobel winner as Energy secretary
# 11 December 2008 10:50 (UTC +04:00)
Chicago-APA. President-elect Barack Obama plans to tap a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and three former Clinton administration officials to lead his environment-and-energy policy team, APA reports.
Steve Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and 1997 Nobel Prize winner for physics, as his Energy Secretary.
Sutley would be Obama’s first prominent openly gay appointee. Jackson, Sutley and Browner worked at the EPA during the Clinton administration.
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