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He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 and headed the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before becoming energy secretary in 2009.

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Institutional affiliation is also a factor -- a study from his lab found that Berkeley students tended to like their school colors, blue and gold, more than their rival school Stanford's colors, red and white.

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In his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, Full studies the biomechanics behind animal movement, trying to identify which species are the best at executing specific types of motion, such as running, climbing or crawling and then attempting to pinpoint exactly what biological features makes these creatures so skilled at what they do.

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