Talk About Overachieving

Steven Chu, the Nobel Laureate tapped by the President-elect as the Secretary of Energy, and his crazy smart extended family:

Chu married his wife Jean, an Oxford-trained physicist, in 1997. He comes from a family of accomplished scholars. His maternal grandfather earned advanced civil engineering degrees at Cornell and his uncle studied physics at the Sorbonne before they returned to China. His father earned an advanced chemical engineering degree at M.I.T. and taught at Washington University and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, while his mother studied economics. His younger brother, Morgan Chu, is a partner and the former Co-Managing Partner at Irell & Manella LLP, a law firm. His older brother Gilbert Chu is a professor and researcher of Biochemistry and Medicine at Stanford University. His two brothers and four cousins earned three M.D.s, four Ph.D.s, and a J.D. between them.

Wow.