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Hire Brash Young Turks, Create the New Bell Labs for Energy, Says Secretary Steven Chu

Steven Chu was once a young turk scientist in the late 1970s at Bell Labs, the hothouse that gave the world the transistor, satellites, and all sorts of other high tech inventions. Now that he’s the U.S. Secretary of Energy, overseeing 30,000 government scientists and engineers around the country, Chu is drawing on his own formative experience to wrestle with an enormous problem he simply calls “the Energy Challenge.”

The national laboratories have an opportunity to make groundbreaking fundamental discoveries, even while being mission-driven. The national labs can collaborate across disciplines, which Chu says is something that seldom happens in universities because they corral researchers within departments, which he calls “stovepipes.”

Luke Timmerman

Full Story: http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/08/11/hire-brash-young-turks-create-the-new-bell-labs-for-energy-says-secretary-steven-chu/

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