Nobel-winning Chief
Makes a UC Homecoming

	Chu

Steven Chu is the self-
described black sheep of his family. The fact that he has won a Nobel Prize in physics and just became director of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory should tell you something about his family. "I'm the only one in the family with only one advanced degree," said Chu. Chu was raised to be a scholar from the start. He remembers being a second-grader and being told by his parents that he shouldn't get married until after he had earned his Ph.D. Though he didn't exactly follow that advice to the letter, Chu went on to become one of the brightest scientists of his generation. Full story.

Ingenious Spectroscopy
In Latest Science Beat

The latest edition of Berkeley Lab's online science magazine, Science Beat, is now available. Among the stories in this issue: an ingenious technique — soft x-ray standing-wave spectroscopy — is being used to study futuristic electronic devices; scientists at a rocket factory deep inside Russia have been inspired by DOE's Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention to build compact wind turbines that could bring electricity to farthest Mongolia; and a computer scientist puts the leading computer models to the test to determine how good climate predictions are. For these stories and more, go straight to the latest Science Beat.