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• About the Director
• Short Scientific Biography

• Media
• Lehrer NewsHour: "Physicist Searches for Alternative Fuel Technologies" - 5/2/07 (video and audio)

• Speeches, Talks (2008)
  
• 2008 State of the Lab Address - 3/10/08 (.wmv video), (PowerPoint)
  
  
• Speeches, Talks (2007)
  
• Pre-2007 Archive
  
  (All files in .pdf or text unless otherwise noted)
  
• Freshman Lecture, Environmental Studies (UC Berkeley), "Introduction to Research at Berkeley Lab" - 10/18/07
• Chinese Academy of Sciences: "The Energy Problem and How We Might Solve It." - 10/11/07
• World Affairs Council of San Francisco: "A New Energy Program." 9/13/07 (.mp3, .pdf, RealMedia video)
• Green Innovation Network, "Energy Efficiency." 7/18/07
• Science at the Theater: "The Energy Problem: What the Helios Project Can Do About It." - 4/23/07 (.pdf), (.mp3)
• Testimony - U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: "Opportunities and Challenges in the U.S.-China Economic Relationship" - 3/27/07
• EBI Educational Forum - 3/20/07
• AAAS Annual Meeting: "The Energy Problem and What We Can Do to Solve It" - 2/17/07 (.pdf), (video)
• UC Board of Regents: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Helios Project" - 1/17/07
• Op-Eds
  
  
  • San Francisco Chronicle: "On Our Energy Future" - 4/15/07
  • San Francisco Chronicle: "Power to the People — and How to Keep It Coming" - 7/17/05 (.pdf), (text)

• Lab release on new Director
• UC Announcement of New Director of Berkeley Lab
• UC President Dynes' and Others' Reactions
• UC Berkeley reaction
• June 25, 2004 issue of The View stories
• Chu's comments to lab employees, 8/2/04

• Chu's Department of Physics Web page at Stanford
• "Uncovering the Secret Life of Molecules," The Stanford Report, 1997

Archived Steve Chu Speeches and Talks (prior to 2007)

(All files in .pdf or text unless otherwise noted)

• Energy Summit 2006 (San Jose): "The Next Revolution in Energy Technology" - 7/21/06
• Asia Pacific Partnership Conference: "Solutions to the Energy Problem" - 4/19/06
• Testimony - U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science: "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" - 3-9-06
• International Forum, Beijing: "Optimizing Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies Through Tax and Fiscal Policies" - 11/16/05
• Nano*High Talk: "Global Warming, the Energy Crisis and What We Can Do About It" - 10/29/05 (.pdf),
  (.wav audio), (.mp3 audio)
• Senate Caucus Briefing on National Academies Report on S&T Funding - 10/27/2005
• Summer Lecture Series: "Physics Meets Biology" - 8/1/05
• Commonwealth Club - 7/21/05, (audio)
• Lecture at Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan: "Biological Solution to the Energy Crisis" - 7/8/05

 

Nobel Prize

The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics

Steven Chu shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for "development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light." More >>

Steven Chu's Nobel autobiography

Chu's Nobel Lecture (.pdf)

Receiving the Nobel Prize

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Photo by Linda A. Cicero/ Stanford News Service

To Catch an Atom

If you ever get the feeling that life is a blur, maybe it’s because the atoms that make up the world around us are always moving at speeds faster than those of supersonic jet planes (about 4,000 kilometers per hour). By cooling an atom down to a temperature of nearly absolute zero (-273 degrees Celsius), you can slow its movement to a crawl and then use light to trap and manipulate it. That’s what physicist Steven Chu, the new director of Berkeley Lab, did to win a share of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics. Continued >>