Dr. Steven Chu is a physicist. His research work in atomic physics and quantum electronics, at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the mid-eigthies, earned him the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Dr. Claude-Cohen Tannoudji and Dr. William D. Phillips, for ‘Development of Methods to Cool and Trap Atoms with Laser Light’. Dr. Chu is the Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. His present research interests include the structure and dynamics of biopolymers. While maintaining his professorship at Stanford, Dr. Chu was, in June 2004, appointed as Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed by the University of California, conducts unclassified research across a wide range of scientific disciplines with key efforts in fundamental studies of the universe; quantitative biology; nanoscience; new energy systems and environmental solutions; and the use of integrated computing as a tool for discovery.