[PAR] [TLE] Daniel Poneman [SEP] Daniel Bruce Poneman (born March 12, 1956) is an American politician who was the United States Deputy Secretary of Energy from 2009 to 2014 and is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago.  Poneman was Acting Secretary of Energy in 2013 following the resignation of Steven Chu until Ernest Moniz was confirmed and sworn in. [PAR] [TLE] Steven Chu [SEP] Steven Chu (, born February 28, 1948) is an American physicist.  He is known for his research at Bell Labs and Stanford University regarding the cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips.
[PAR] [TLE] Daniel Poneman [ SEP ] Daniel Bruce Poneman ( born March 12 , 1956 ) is an American politician who was the United States Deputy Secretary of Energy from 2009 to 2014 and is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago . Poneman was Acting Secretary of Energy in 2013 following the resignation of Steven Chu until Ernest Moniz was confirmed and sworn in . [PAR] [TLE] Steven Chu [ SEP ] Steven Chu ( , born February 28 , 1948 ) is an American physicist . He is known for his research at Bell Labs and Stanford University regarding the cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light , for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 , along with his scientific colleagues Claude Cohen - Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips .
Daniel Poneman's predecessor as Secretary of Energy won a Nobel Prize in what field?
Daniel Poneman 's predecessor as Secretary of Energy won a Nobel Prize in what field ?
Physics
Physics