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The Hobby of Energy Secretary Steven Chu

Posted by kdawson on from the needs-to-get-out-more dept.

quanminoan writes "Nobel Laureate and US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has continued to publish even while in federal office. While previous research topics include gravitational redshift, Chu has coauthored a paper entitled 'Subnanometre single-molecule localization registration and distance measurements' which discusses a way to optically image objects as small as 0.5 nm — a major step down from the previous limit of 10 nm. Chu does this in his free time, claiming 'I just consider it my equivalent of ... vegging out in front of the TV.'"

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  1. Re:Beats him whinging about Americans being spoile by Cwix · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I really... really.. REALLY hate people who start their post in the title.

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  2. Glad to be of by Twinbee · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    service.

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  3. Re:Beats him whinging about Americans being spoile by noidentity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I really... really.. REALLY hate people who start their post in the title.

    I don't get it either. To me they're like people who send email with subjects like "yo", "tomorrow", and the like.

  4. I love hanging out at my electon microscope by NicknamesAreStupid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Watching my PTF tabletop fusion reactor generate neutrons that occasionally bombard the tiny bit of palladium in my scope (mostly bombarding me and my bedroom). I get a warm feeling while watching, not to mention memory lapses and occasional retinal flares. I also have problem with the memory and CPU in my computer sudde

  5. Re:NO! by Beelzebud · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Flamebait? Really?