He comes from a family of academic overachievers. His father emigrated from China to study chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and retired as a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. His mother studied economics in China and at M.I.T. One brother, Gilbert, is a professor of medicine and biochemistry at Stanford; the other, Morgan, is a highly regarded intellectual property lawyer in Los Angeles. Dr. Chu once described himself as the academic black sheep of the family.
via nytimes.com
hi, meet your new dorky noble-prize-winning SOOOPERnerd Secretary of Energy who's better at science than with dealing with people-skill stuff like GIGANTIC BUREAUCRACY.
sigh