It looks like president-elect Barack Obama is going to appoint Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu to be Director of the Department of Energy—marking the first time a Physics Nobel Laureate will hold that position.

Chu is currently the director of the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and has been an influential voice in physics—and more recently, climate change science.

Here are a few interesting Steven Chu-related links from AIP:

Lecture at AIP's 75th Anniversary, May 3, 2006

The Science of Photons to Fuel
AIP Conf. Proc. 1044, 266 (2008)

Energy and The Second Law
AIP Conf. Proc. 1033, 111 (2008)

A random walk in science
AIP Conf. Proc. 596 21 (2001)

Laser cooling: Beyond optical molasses and beyond closed transitions
AIP Conf. Proc. 551 356 (2001)

Laser cooling and trapping of atoms
(Nobel Prize winning research)AIP Conf. Proc. 160 319 (1987)