List of University of California, Berkeley faculty
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This page lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Berkeley
. Faculty who were also alumni are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parentheses.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. Faculty who were also alumni are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parentheses.
Nobel laureates
- George A. AkerlofGeorge AkerlofGeorge Arthur Akerlof is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of...
- Professor of Economics Nobel laureate (2001, economics) for the "analyses of markets with asymmetric informationInformation asymmetryIn economics and contract theory, information asymmetry deals with the study of decisions in transactions where one party has more or better information than the other. This creates an imbalance of power in transactions which can sometimes cause the transactions to go awry, a kind of market failure...
" - Luis W. AlvarezLuis AlvarezLuis W. Alvarez was an American experimental physicist and inventor, who spent nearly all of his long professional career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley...
- Professor of Physics, Nobel laureate (1968, physics) "for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physicsParticle physicsParticle physics is a branch of physics that studies the existence and interactions of particles that are the constituents of what is usually referred to as matter or radiation. In current understanding, particles are excitations of quantum fields and interact following their dynamics...
, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogenHydrogenHydrogen is the chemical element with atomic number 1. It is represented by the symbol H. With an average atomic weight of , hydrogen is the lightest and most abundant chemical element, constituting roughly 75% of the Universe's chemical elemental mass. Stars in the main sequence are mainly...
bubble chamberBubble chamberA bubble chamber is a vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it. It was invented in 1952 by Donald A. Glaser, for which he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics...
and data analysis" - Melvin CalvinMelvin CalvinMelvin Ellis Calvin was an American chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.- Life :Calvin was born...
-University Professor of Chemistry, discovered Calvin CycleCalvin cycleThe Calvin cycle or Calvin–Benson-Bassham cycle or reductive pentose phosphate cycle or C3 cycle or CBB cycle is a series of biochemical redox reactions that take place in the stroma of chloroplasts in photosynthetic organisms...
; Nobel laureate (1961, chemistry), "for his research on the carbon dioxideCarbon dioxideCarbon dioxide is a naturally occurring chemical compound composed of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom...
assimilation in plants" - Owen ChamberlainOwen ChamberlainOwen Chamberlain was an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery, with collaborator Emilio Segrè, of antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle.-Biography:...
- Professor of Physics; Nobel laureate (1959, physics) for the "discovery of the antiprotonAntiprotonThe antiproton is the antiparticle of the proton. Antiprotons are stable, but they are typically short-lived since any collision with a proton will cause both particles to be annihilated in a burst of energy....
" - Steven ChuSteven ChuSteven Chu is an American physicist and the 12th United States Secretary of Energy. Chu is known for his research at Bell Labs in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and...
(Ph.D. 1976) - Professor of Physics, Director of Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryLawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryThe Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory conducting unclassified scientific research. It is located on the grounds of the University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Hills above the central campus...
, current Secretary of Energy; Nobel laureate (1997, physics), "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser lightLaser coolingLaser cooling refers to the number of techniques in which atomic and molecular samples are cooled through the interaction with one or more laser light fields...
" - Gerard DebreuGerard DebreuGérard Debreu was a French economist and mathematician, who also came to have United States citizenship. Best known as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began work in 1962, he won the 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.-Biography:His father was the...
-, Professor of Economics and of Mathematics; Nobel laureate (1983, economics) "for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibriumGeneral equilibriumGeneral equilibrium theory is a branch of theoretical economics. It seeks to explain the behavior of supply, demand and prices in a whole economy with several or many interacting markets, by seeking to prove that a set of prices exists that will result in an overall equilibrium, hence general...
" - John C. HarsanyiJohn HarsanyiJohn Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-Australian-American economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner....
- Nobel laureate (1994, economics) for "pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative gamesGame theoryGame theory is a mathematical method for analyzing calculated circumstances, such as in games, where a person’s success is based upon the choices of others...
" - Donald A. GlaserDonald A. GlaserDonald Arthur Glaser , is an American physicist, neurobiologist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his invention of the Bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physics....
-Professor of Molecular Biology and of Physics Nobel laureate (1950, physics) "for the invention of the bubble chamberBubble chamberA bubble chamber is a vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it. It was invented in 1952 by Donald A. Glaser, for which he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics...
" - William F. GiauqueWilliam GiauqueWilliam Francis Giauque was an American chemist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1949 for his studies in the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero...
(B.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1922) - Nobel laureate (1949, Chemistry) "for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamicsChemical thermodynamicsChemical thermodynamics is the study of the interrelation of heat and work with chemical reactions or with physical changes of state within the confines of the laws of thermodynamics...
, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures". - Ernest O. LawrenceErnest LawrenceErnest Orlando Lawrence was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron atom-smasher beginning in 1929, based on his studies of the works of Rolf Widerøe, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project...
- Nobel laureate (1939, physics) "for the invention and development of the cyclotronCyclotronIn technology, a cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. In physics, the cyclotron frequency or gyrofrequency is the frequency of a charged particle moving perpendicularly to the direction of a uniform magnetic field, i.e. a magnetic field of constant magnitude and direction...
and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements" - Yuan T. LeeYuan T. LeeYuan Tseh Lee, Ph.D. is a chemist. He was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate, who, along with the Hungarian-Canadian John C. Polanyi and American Dudley R. Herschbach won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 "for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"...
(Ph.D. 1962) - Professor of Chemistry, Principal Investigator, Materials and Molecular Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Nobel laureate (1986, Chemistry) for "contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes" - Willard LibbyWillard LibbyWillard Frank Libby was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology....
(B.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1933) - Professor of Chemistry, Nobel laureate (1960, Chemistry) "for his method to use carbon-14Carbon-14Carbon-14, 14C, or radiocarbon, is a radioactive isotope of carbon with a nucleus containing 6 protons and 8 neutrons. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues , to date archaeological, geological, and hydrogeological...
for age determinationRadiocarbon datingRadiocarbon dating is a radiometric dating method that uses the naturally occurring radioisotope carbon-14 to estimate the age of carbon-bearing materials up to about 58,000 to 62,000 years. Raw, i.e. uncalibrated, radiocarbon ages are usually reported in radiocarbon years "Before Present" ,...
in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science" - Daniel L. McFaddenDaniel McFaddenDaniel Little McFadden is an econometrician who shared the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Heckman ; McFadden's share of the prize was "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice". He was the E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics at the...
- Nobel laureate (2000, economics) "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice" - Edwin M. McMillanEdwin McMillanEdwin Mattison McMillan was an American physicist and Nobel laureate credited with being the first ever to produce a transuranium element. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg in 1951....
-Professor of Physics, and former Director of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Nobel laureate (1951, chemistry) for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements" - Czesław Miłosz - Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Emeritus; Nobel laureate (1980, literature) "who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts"
- John H. NorthropJohn Howard NorthropJohn Howard Northrop was an American biochemist who won, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award was given for these scientists' isolation, crystallization, and study of enzymes, proteins, and viruses...
- Nobel laureate (1946, chemistry) for "preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form" - Saul PerlmutterSaul PerlmutterSaul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of...
, Ph.D. 1986 - Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley; co-discoverer of Dark EnergyDark energyIn physical cosmology, astronomy and celestial mechanics, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to accelerate the expansion of the universe. Dark energy is the most accepted theory to explain recent observations that the universe appears to be expanding...
as head of the Supernova Cosmology ProjectSupernova Cosmology ProjectThe Supernova Cosmology Project is one of two research teams that determined the likelihood of an accelerating universe and therefore a positive Cosmological constant, using data from the redshift of Type Ia supernovae...
; recipient of the Shaw PrizeShaw PrizeThe Shaw Prize is an annual award first presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in 2004. Established in 2002 in Hong Kong, it honours living "individuals, regardless of race, nationality and religious belief, who have achieved significant breakthrough in academic and scientific research or...
in Astronomy in 2006; Nobel laureate (2011, Physics) "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the UniverseAccelerating universeThe accelerating universe is the observation that the universe appears to be expanding at an increasing rate, which in formal terms means that the cosmic scale factor a has a positive second derivative, implying that the velocity at which a given galaxy is receding from us should be continually...
through observations of distant supernovae" - Glenn T. SeaborgGlenn T. SeaborgGlenn Theodore Seaborg was an American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements", contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, and developed the actinide concept, which led to the current arrangement of the...
(Ph.D. 1937) - University Professor of Chemistry, Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Chancellor, Berkeley campus (1958–1961); Nobel laureate (1951, Chemistry) for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements" - Emilio G. SegrèEmilio G. SegrèEmilio Gino Segrè was an Italian-born, naturalized American, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics, who with Owen Chamberlain, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle.-Biography:...
- Professor of Physics, Emeritus; Nobel laureate (1959, physics) for the "discovery of the antiprotonAntiprotonThe antiproton is the antiparticle of the proton. Antiprotons are stable, but they are typically short-lived since any collision with a proton will cause both particles to be annihilated in a burst of energy....
" - George F. Smoot - Nobel laureate (2006, Physics for the "discovery of the black bodyBlack bodyA black body is an idealized physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation. Because of this perfect absorptivity at all wavelengths, a black body is also the best possible emitter of thermal radiation, which it radiates incandescently in a characteristic, continuous spectrum...
form and anisotropyAnisotropyAnisotropy is the property of being directionally dependent, as opposed to isotropy, which implies identical properties in all directions. It can be defined as a difference, when measured along different axes, in a material's physical or mechanical properties An example of anisotropy is the light...
of the cosmic microwave background radiationCosmic microwave background radiationIn cosmology, cosmic microwave background radiation is thermal radiation filling the observable universe almost uniformly....
" - Wendell M. StanleyWendell Meredith StanleyWendell Meredith Stanley was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Stanley was born in Ridgeville, Indiana, and earned a BS in Chemistry at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. He then studied at the University of Illinois, gaining an MS in science in 1927 followed by...
- Nobel laureate (1946, chemistry) for the "preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form" - Charles H. Townes - University Professor of Physics; Nobel laureate (1964, physics) "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maserMaserA maser is a device that produces coherent electromagnetic waves through amplification by stimulated emission. Historically, “maser” derives from the original, upper-case acronym MASER, which stands for "Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation"...
-laser principle"
Turing Award
- Manuel BlumManuel BlumManuel Blum is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".-Biography:Blum attended MIT, where he received his bachelor's degree and...
- Professor of Computer Science and recipient of the 1995 Turing AwardTuring AwardThe Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...
, for "his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theoryComputational complexity theoryComputational complexity theory is a branch of the theory of computation in theoretical computer science and mathematics that focuses on classifying computational problems according to their inherent difficulty, and relating those classes to each other...
and its application to cryptographyCryptographyCryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...
and program checking." - Stephen CookStephen CookStephen Arthur Cook is a renowned American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made major contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity...
- Professor of mathematics (1966–1970), recipient of the 1982 Turing Award "for his advancement of our understanding of the complexity of computation in a significant and profound way" - William KahanWilliam KahanWilliam Morton Kahan is a mathematician and computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis", and was named an ACM Fellow in 1994....
- Professor of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, primary architect behind the IEEE 754 standard for floating-point computation, and recipient of the 1989 Turing AwardTuring AwardThe Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...
, for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysisNumerical analysisNumerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation for the problems of mathematical analysis ....
. Kahan has dedicated himself to "making the world safe for numerical computations." - Richard KarpRichard KarpRichard Manning Karp is a computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley, notable for research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turing Award in 1985, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science in 2004, and the Kyoto...
- Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Operations Research, and recipient of the 1985 Turing AwardTuring AwardThe Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...
For "his continuing contributions to the theory of algorithms including the development of efficient algorithms for network flow and other combinatorial optimization problems, the identification of polynomial-time computability with the intuitive notion of algorithmic efficiency, and, most notably, contributions to the theory of NP-completeness. Karp introduced the now standard methodology for proving problems to be NP-complete which has led to the identification of many theoretical and practical problems as being computationally difficult. " - Dana ScottDana ScottDana Stewart Scott is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California...
, B.S. 1954 - computer scientist, co-recipient of the 1976 Turing Award with Michael O. RabinMichael O. RabinMichael Oser Rabin , is an Israeli computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award.- Biography :Rabin was born in 1931 in Breslau, Germany, , the son of a rabbi. In 1935, he emigrated with his family to Mandate Palestine...
, for "the joint paper (with Rabin) "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem", which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines, which has proved to be an enormously valuable concept. Their (Scott & Rabin) classic paper has been a continuous source of inspiration for subsequent work in this field"; former Associate Professor of Math at UC Berkeley, professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.... - Herbert A. Simon (director 1939-1942 ), co-recipient of the 1975 Turing Award for "basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing", and Nobel laureateNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
(1978, Economics) "for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations" - Robert TarjanRobert TarjanRobert Endre Tarjan is a renowned American computer scientist. He is the discoverer of several important graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees and Fibonacci heaps. Tarjan is currently the James S...
- computer scientist, professor at UC Berkeley (1973–1975), recipient of the 1986 Turing Award "for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures"
Fields Medal
- Richard BorcherdsRichard BorcherdsRichard Ewen Borcherds is a British mathematician specializing in lattices, number theory, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998.- Personal life :...
- Fields medalistFields MedalThe Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
(1998), Professor of Mathematics - Michael FreedmanMichael FreedmanMichael Hartley Freedman is a mathematician at Microsoft Station Q, a research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture. Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic R4 manifold exists.Freedman was born...
, mathematician, winner of the Fields MedalFields MedalThe Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
in 1986. - Vaughan JonesVaughan JonesSir Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones, KNZM, FRS, FRSNZ is a New Zealand mathematician, known for his work on von Neumann algebras, knot polynomials and conformal field theory. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1990, and famously wore a New Zealand rugby jersey when he accepted the prize...
- Fields medalist (1990), Professor of Mathematics - Curtis T. McMullenCurtis T. McMullenCurtis Tracy McMullen is Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998 for his work in complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry and Teichmüller theory....
- Fields medalist (1990), Professor of Mathematics - Andrei OkounkovAndrei OkounkovAndrei Yuryevich Okounkov is a Russian mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability theory and special functions. He is currently a professor at Columbia University....
- Fields Medalist (2006), Assistant Professor of Mathematics - Stephen SmaleStephen SmaleSteven Smale a.k.a. Steve Smale, Stephen Smale is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966, and spent more than three decades on the mathematics faculty of the University of California, Berkeley .-Education and career:He entered the University of...
- Fields Medalist (1966), Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
Pulitzer Prize
- Ben BagdikianBen BagdikianBen Haig Bagdikian is an American educator and journalist. Bagdikian has made journalism his profession since 1941. He is a significant American media critic and the dean emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism...
, dean emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting - Robert HassRobert HassRobert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:...
, professor of English, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - Leon Litwack (BA. 1951, PhD 1958 ), professor emeritus of history, Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.
- Richard OfsheRichard OfsheRichard Ofshe is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the advisory board of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation advocacy organization, and is known for his expert testimony relating to coercion in small groups, confessions, and...
, professor emeritus of sociology whose work won the Pulitzer Prize for public service
Wolf Prize
- John Casida - recipient of the Wolf Prize (1993, Agriculture) "for his pioneering studies on the mode of action of insecticides, design of safer pesticides and contributions to the understanding of nerve and muscle function in insects."
- Shiing-Shen ChernShiing-Shen ChernShiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century.-Early years in China:...
- recipient of the Wolf Prize (1983, Mathematics), "for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics" - Phillip GriffithsPhillip GriffithsPhillip Griffiths is an American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry. He was a major developer in particular of the theory of variation of Hodge structure in Hodge theory and moduli theory.He received...
(professor 1962-1967) - mathematician, recipient of the Wolf Prize (1986, Mathematics), "for his work on variations of Hodge structureHodge structureIn mathematics, a Hodge structure, named after W. V. D. Hodge, is an algebraic structure at the level of linear algebra, similar to the one that Hodge theory gives to the cohomology groups of a smooth and compact Kähler manifold...
; the theory of periods of abelian integrals; and for his contributions to complex differential geometry." ; former professor at UC Berkeley - Erwin HahnErwin HahnErwin L. Hahn is a U.S. physicist, best known for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance . In 1950 he discovered the spin echo....
- recipient of the Wolf Prize (1983/1984, Physics) "for his discovery of nuclear spin echoesSpin echoIn magnetic resonance, a spin echo is the refocusing of precessing spin magnetisation by a pulse of resonant radiation. Modern nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance imaging rely heavily on this effect....
and for the phenomenon of self-induced transparency" - Carl Huffaker - recipient of the Wolf Prize (1994/1995) for " contributions to the development and implementation of environmentally beneficial integrated pest management systems for the protection of agricultural crops."
- Alexander PinesAlexander PinesAlexander Pines is the Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, Senior Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , and a member of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences and the Department of...
- recipient of the Wolf Prize (Chemistry, 1991), "for his revolutionary contributions to NMRNuclear magnetic resonanceNuclear magnetic resonance is a physical phenomenon in which magnetic nuclei in a magnetic field absorb and re-emit electromagnetic radiation...
spectroscopy, especially multiple-quantum and high-spin NMR."" - Stephen SmaleStephen SmaleSteven Smale a.k.a. Steve Smale, Stephen Smale is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966, and spent more than three decades on the mathematics faculty of the University of California, Berkeley .-Education and career:He entered the University of...
- recipient of the Wolf Prize (2007, Mathematics)"for his groundbreaking contributions that have played a fundamental role in shaping differential topologyDifferential topologyIn mathematics, differential topology is the field dealing with differentiable functions on differentiable manifolds. It is closely related to differential geometry and together they make up the geometric theory of differentiable manifolds.- Description :...
, dynamical systems, mathematical economics, and other subjects in mathematics." - Gabor Somorjai - recipient of the Wolf Prize (Chemistry, 1998) for "outstanding contributions to the field of the surface scienceSurface scienceSurface science is the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases, including solid–liquid interfaces, solid–gas interfaces, solid–vacuum interfaces, and liquid-gas interfaces. It includes the fields of surface chemistry and surface physics. Some related...
in general, and for ... elucidation of fundamental mechanisms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions at single crystal surfaces in particular." - Roger Y. TsienRoger Y. TsienRoger Yonchien Tsien is a Chinese American biochemist and a professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego...
- (also listed in Nobel laureates); recipient of the Wolf Prize (Medicine, 2004) "for his seminal contribution to the design and biological application of novel fluorescent and photolabile molecules to analyze and perturb cell signal transduction."
Agriculture
- Irma AdelmanIrma AdelmanIrma Glicman Adelman is an American economist. She is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the Graduate School of the University of California, Berkeley since 1979. She has made important contributions in the field of development economics...
(B.S. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) - Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics in the Graduate School
Anthropology
- Margaret ConkeyMargaret Conkey-Biography:Conkey graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1965. She is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is the director of the university's Archaeological Research Facility and holds a rare endowed chair...
- Professor of Anthropology - Charles L. BriggsCharles L. BriggsCharles Leslie Briggs is an anthropologist who currently works at the University of California, Berkeley. Before working at Berkeley he held a position as Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at University of California, San Diego....
- Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Folklore - Clifford GeertzClifford GeertzClifford James Geertz was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until...
- Assistant Professor of Anthropology (1958–60), now Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced StudyInstitute for Advanced StudyThe Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, is an independent postgraduate center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It was founded in 1930 by Abraham Flexner...
, Princeton, NJ. - Patrick Vinton KirchPatrick Vinton KirchPatrick Vinton Kirch is an archaeologist who studies Oceanic and Polynesia prehistory. He is the Class of 1954 Professor Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. He also serves as Curator of Oceanic Archaeology in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and was director of...
- Professor of Anthropology - Alfred Kroeber - Professor of Anthropology and father of Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le GuinUrsula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...
- Saba MahmoodSaba MahmoodSaba Mahmood is an associate professor of social cultural anthropology at UC Berkeley.- Biography :She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject in which she theorizes the concept of habitus from a genealogy that begins with Aristotle and extends into the...
- Associate Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology - Laura NaderLaura NaderLaura Nader is an American anthropologist.She has been a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley since 1960. She received a BA in Latin American Studies from Wells College in Aurora, NY in 1952. She received her Ph.D...
- Professor of Anthropology, pioneer of Legal Anthropology, older sister of Ralph NaderRalph NaderRalph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government.... - Paul RabinowPaul RabinowPaul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California , Director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory , and former Director of Human Practices for the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center...
- Professor of Anthropology - Vincent SarichVincent Sarich- Biography :Born in Chicago, he received a bachelor of science in chemistry from Illinois Institute of Technology and his masters and doctorate in anthropology from University of California, Berkeley...
(M.S., Ph.D.) - Professor Emeritus of Anthropology - Nancy Scheper-HughesNancy Scheper-HughesNancy Scheper-Hughes is a professor of Anthropology and director of the program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. She is known for her writing on the anthropology of the body, hunger, illness, medicine, psychiatry, madness, social suffering, violence and genocide...
(B.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1976) - Professor of Anthropology - Ruth TringhamRuth TringhamRuth Tringham is an anthropologist, emphasizing in the archaeology of Neolithic Europe and southwest Asia. She is currently a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Before going to Berkeley, she had taught at Harvard University and University College London...
- Professor of Anthropology
Art and architecture
- Christopher AlexanderChristopher AlexanderChristopher Wolfgang Alexander is a registered architect noted for his theories about design, and for more than 200 building projects in California, Japan, Mexico and around the world...
- Professor Emeritus of Architecture - Svetlana AlpersSvetlana AlpersSvetlana Leontief Alpers is an American artist, art historian and critic. She is a university professor and a consultant to both National Public Radio and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her father was Wassily Leontief, a Nobel laureate in...
- Professor Emeritus of Art History - T.J. Clark - Professor of Art History
- Karl KastenKarl KastenKarl Albert Kasten was a painter-printmaker-educator in the San Francisco Bay Area.- Early life :Kasten, fourth child of Ferdinand Kasten and his wife Barbara Anna Kasten, grew up in San Francisco's Richmond District not far from the peacocks at Golden Gate Park...
(B.A. 1938, M.A. 1939) - Professor Emeritus, Art Practice - John McNamaraJohn McNamara (artist)John McNamara is an American artist who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1971 with a BFA in painting and in 1977 with an MFA. In 1975, he began teaching painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and remained there until 1983. He...
- Lecturer, Art Practice - Bernard MaybeckBernard MaybeckBernard Ralph Maybeck was a architect in the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early 20th century. He was a professor at University of California, Berkeley...
- drawing instructor (1894), Professor of Architecture (1898–1903) - Roger MontgomeryRoger MontgomeryRoger Montgomery was a city planner, urban designer, architect, and educator.-Biography:He was born in New York City to parents Graham Livingston Montgomery and Anne Cook and lived in Greenwich Village until 1930, when he moved to Port Washington, Long Island. Roger's father died suddenly from a...
- Dean, College of Environmental Design, Professor of Urban Design, Architecture, and City and Regional Planning (1967–1996) - Sim Van der RynSim Van der RynSim Van der Ryn is acknowledged as a leader in "sustainable architecture." He is also a researcher and educator. Van der Ryn's driving professional interest has been applying principles of physical and social ecology to architecture and environmental design....
- Professor Emeritus of Architecture
Astronomy
- Alex Filippenko - Professor of Astronomy
- Carl E. HeilesCarl E. HeilesCarl Eugene Heiles is an American astrophysicist noted for his contribution to the understanding of diffuse interstellar matter through observational radio astronomy.-Biography:Heiles was born in Toledo, Ohio...
- Professor of Astronomy - Raymond JeanlozRaymond JeanlozRaymond Jeanloz is a professor of earth and planetary science and of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Educated at the California Institute of Technology, Amherst College and at Deep Springs College, he has contributed research fundamental to understanding of the composition of...
- Professor of Astronomy, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science - Paul KalasPaul KalasPaul Kalas is a Greek American astronomer known for his discoveries of debris disks around stars. Kalas led a team of scientists to obtain the first visible-light images of an extrasolar planet with orbital motion around the star Fomalhaut, at a distance of 25 light years from Earth...
- Assistant Adjunct Professor of Astronomy - James KirchnerJames KirchnerJames W. Kirchner is professor of Earth and Planetary Science at University of California, Berkeley. His current research spans the fields of geomorphology, hydrology, environmental geochemistry, evolutionary ecology, and paleobiology...
(Ph.D. 1990) - Professor of Earth and Planetary Science - Richard Klein - Adjunct Professor of Astronomy
- Michael MangaMichael MangaMichael Manga is a MacArthur Fellow and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Part of his work has been funded by the National Science Foundation . The award from the NSF suppored his studies of geological fluid mechanics and...
- Professor of Earth and Planetary Science - Geoffrey MarcyGeoffrey MarcyGeoffrey W. Marcy is an American astronomer, who is currently Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, famous for discovering more extrasolar planets than anyone else, 70 out of the first 100 to be discovered, along with R...
- Professor of Astronomy, has discovered many extrasolar planets, winner of Shaw PrizeShaw PrizeThe Shaw Prize is an annual award first presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in 2004. Established in 2002 in Hong Kong, it honours living "individuals, regardless of race, nationality and religious belief, who have achieved significant breakthrough in academic and scientific research or...
in astronomy in 2005. - Frank ShuFrank ShuFrank Shu , is an astrophysicist, author and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Diego and the university president of the National Tsing Hua University....
(Ph.D. 1986) - Professor of Astronomy, winner of the Shaw PrizeShaw PrizeThe Shaw Prize is an annual award first presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in 2004. Established in 2002 in Hong Kong, it honours living "individuals, regardless of race, nationality and religious belief, who have achieved significant breakthrough in academic and scientific research or...
in Astronomy in 2009. - Adam RiessAdam RiessAdam Guy Riess is an American astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute and is widely known for his research in using supernovae as Cosmological Probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul...
- Miller Fellow, Professor of Physics, winner of the Shaw PrizeShaw PrizeThe Shaw Prize is an annual award first presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in 2004. Established in 2002 in Hong Kong, it honours living "individuals, regardless of race, nationality and religious belief, who have achieved significant breakthrough in academic and scientific research or...
in Astronomy in 2006. - Paul RennePaul RennePaul R. Renne is the director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center and also adjunct professor of geology in the Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley...
(B.A. 1982, Ph.D 1987) - Director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Planetary Science
Biology
- Bruce AmesBruce AmesBruce Nathan Ames is an American biochemist. He is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute...
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Clinton BallouClinton BallouClinton E. Ballou is a Professor Emeritus of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focused on the metabolism of carbohydrates and the structures of microbial cell walls...
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Carlos BustamanteCarlos BustamanteCarlos José Bustamante is an American scientist. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.-Biography:Bustamante is an HHMI investigator and professor of molecular and cell biology, physics, and chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, a position he has held since 1998. He...
(Ph.D. 1981) - Professor of Physics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Chemistry - John E. CasidaJohn E. CasidaJohn Edward Casida is an American entomologist, toxicologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.- Birth and education :...
- Professor of Toxicology and Entomology - George W. ChangGeorge W. ChangGeorge W. Chang is a professor and a resident faculty member at the University of California-Berkeley. He resides on campus with his wife Abby, while he is currently an Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology....
(Ph.D 1967) - Associate Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology - Ignacio ChapelaIgnacio ChapelaIgnacio Chapela is an microbial ecologist and mycologist at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for a controversial 2001 paper in Nature on the flow of transgenes into wild maize populations, as an outspoken critic of the University of California's ties to the biotechnology...
- Professor of Microbial Ecology - William A. ClemensWilliam A. Clemens Jr.Dr. William "Bill" A. Clemens, Jr. is a professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Integrated Biology since 1994, and since 1967 in the Department of Paleontology and the UC Museum of Paleontology...
(B.A. 1954, Ph.D 1960) - Professor Emeritus of Integrative Biology - Richard DawkinsRichard DawkinsClinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...
- visiting assistant professor of Zoology (Animal Behavior), 1970, co-taught course with George S. Barlow - Terrence DeaconTerrence DeaconTerrence William Deacon is an American anthropologist . He taught at Harvard for eight years, relocated to Boston University in 1992, and is currently Professor of Biological Anthropology and Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley.-Theoretical interests:Prof...
- Professor of Biological Anthropology and Linguistics - Peter DuesbergPeter DuesbergPeter H. Duesberg is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley...
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Michael EisenMichael EisenMichael Eisen is an American biologist. He is currently an Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at University of California, Berkeley...
- Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, and Howard Hughes Investigator - Lewis FeldmanLewis J. FeldmanLewis Jeffrey Feldman is a professor of plant biology at the University of California, Berkeley and is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Natural Resources. He is in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. Feldman has taught at Berkeley since 1978. He received Berkeley's...
, Professor of Plant Biology - Walter J. Freeman - Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology
- Eva HarrisEva HarrisEva Harris is a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and the founder and president of the Sustainable Sciences Institute...
(Ph.D. 1993) - Professor of Infectious Disease - Tyrone HayesTyrone HayesTyrone B. Hayes is a biologist at University of California, Berkeley. He is perhaps best known for his work on the effects of atrazine on frogs, causing demasculinization in Northern Leopard Frogs....
(Ph.D. 1993) - Professor of Integrative Biology - Nicole KingNicole KingNicole King is an American biologist and faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley in molecular and cell biology and integrative biology...
- Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, and MacArthur Fellow (2005) - David R. LindbergDavid R. LindbergDavid R. Lindberg is an American malacologist and professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Curator for the University of California Museum of Paleontology and co-editor of the journal Molecular Systematics and Phylogeography of Mollusks.Much of his...
- Professor of Integrative Biology - Jere H. LippsJere H. LippsDr. Jere Henry Lipps has been a professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the Department of Integrative Biology since 1988 and Curator of Paleontology at the UC Museum of Paleontology. Lipps is also a past director of the museum and chair of the department...
- Professor of Integrative Biology - Anastasios MelisAnastasios MelisAnastasios Melis is a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley who is researching the possibility of creating hydrogen from algae. Hydrogen power is considered one of the key ways of producing electricity without continuing to use up fossil fuels...
- Professor of Enzymology - Barbara J. MeyerBarbara J. MeyerBarbara J. Meyer is a biologist, noted for her pioneering research on lambda phage, a virus that infects bacteria; discovery of the master control gene involved in sex determination; and studies of gene regulation, particularly dosage compensation.-Biography:...
- Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development and Howard Hughes Investigator - Eva NogalesEva NogalesDr. Eva Nogales is a biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator....
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Howard Hughes Investigator - Kevin PadianKevin PadianKevin Padian is a Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Curator of Paleontology, University of California Museum of Paleontology and President of the National Center for Science Education. Padian's area of interest is in vertebrate evolution, especially the...
- Professor of Integrative Biology and President of the National Center for Science EducationNational Center for Science EducationThe National Center for Science Education is a non-profit organization based in Oakland, California affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It is the United States' leading anti-creationist organization, and defends the teaching of evolutionary biology and opposes... - Jasper RineJasper RineJasper Donald Rine is an American scientist a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at the University of California, Berkeley....
- Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development - Gerald M. RubinGerald M. RubinGerald M. Rubin is an American biologist, notable for pioneering the use of transposable P elements in genetics, and for leading the public project to sequence the Drosophila melanogaster genome. Related to his genomics work, Rubin's lab is notable for development of genomics tools and...
- Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Developmenet, Howard Hughes Investigator, and Director of HHMI's Janelia Farm Research CampusJanelia Farm Research CampusThe Janelia Farm Research Campus is a research campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that opened in October 2006. The campus is located in Loudoun County, Virginia, near the town of Ashburn... - Howard SchachmanHoward SchachmanHoward K. Schachman is a Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley.Schachman received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1948. He has been on the faculty of UC Berkeley ever since. He signed but protested the loyalty oath...
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Randy SchekmanRandy SchekmanRandy W. Schekman is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley and Editor-in-Chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2011 he was announced as the editor of a new high profile open access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the...
- Professor of Cell and Development Biology and Howard Hughes Investigator - Wayne SousaWayne SousaWayne Sousa is a well-known biologist and ecologist. He works at the University of California, Berkeley as a professor and chair of the Department of Integrative Biology. His research in community ecology has been in two broad areas: the role of disturbance in structuring natural communities and...
- Professor of Integrative Biology - Robert TjianRobert TjianRobert Tjian is a U.S. biochemist best known for his work on eukaryotic transcription. He is currently Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
(B.A. 1971) - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, President of HHMI (beginning 2009) - James W. ValentineJames W. ValentineJames W. Valentine is an American evolutionary biologist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley...
- Professor Emeritus of Integrative Biology - Tim WhiteTim White (anthropologist)Tim D. White is an American Paleoanthropologist and Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most famous for his work on Lucy as Australopithecus afarensis with discoverer Donald Johanson.-Career:White was born in Los Angeles County, California...
- Professor of Integrative Biology - Allan WilsonAllan WilsonAllan Charles Wilson was a pioneer in the use of molecular approaches to understand evolutionary change and reconstruct phylogenies, and a contributor to the study of human evolution. He was one of the most controversial figures in post-war biology; his work attracted a great deal of attention...
(Ph.D. 1961) - Professor of Biochemistry - Charles W. WoodworthCharles W. WoodworthCharles W. Woodworth was an American entomologist. He founded the Entomology Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and made many valuable contributions to entomology during his career....
- (1891–1930) Founder of the UCB Division of Entomology, PBESA gives the C. W. Woodworth AwardC. W. Woodworth AwardThe C. W. Woodworth Award is an annual award presented by the Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America. This award, the PBESA's largest, is for achievement in Entomology in the Pacific region of the United States over the previous ten years. The award is named in honor of Charles W....
Business
- Tom Campbell - Professor of Business Administration, former Dean of the Haas School of BusinessHaas School of BusinessThe Walter A. Haas School of Business, also known as the Haas School of Business or simply Haas, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley....
and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives - Henry ChesbroughHenry ChesbroughHenry Chesbrough coined the term open innovation and is the author of Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology...
(Ph.D. 1997) - Adjunct Professor of Business Administration - Richard LyonsRichard Lyons (Dean of Haas School of Business)Richard Kent Lyons is the 14th Dean of the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley. Prior to becoming Dean in July 2008, he served as the Chief Learning Officer at Goldman Sachs in New York, a position he had held since 2006.-Biography:...
(B.S. 1982) - Professor of Business Administration and Dean of the Haas School of Business - David C. MoweryDavid C. MoweryDavid C. Mowery is the William A. & Betty H. Hasler Professor of New Enterprise Development at the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He earned a BA, an MA, and a Ph.D. in economics, each from Stanford University...
- Professor of Business Administration - Mario RosatiMario RosatiMario Rosati is a partner at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati. Mario also serves as a director at Sanmina-SCI Corporation, Aehr Test Systems, Symyx Technologies, and Vivus - all publicly held companies....
(J.D. 1971) - Adjunct Professor of Business Administration - Carl Shapiro (M.A. 1977) - Professor of Business Administration
- David TeeceDavid TeeceDavid J. Teece is the Chairman of Berkeley Research Group, LLC, and Thomas W. Tusher Chair in Global Business and director of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Teece received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics...
- Professor of Business Administration - Philip E. TetlockPhilip E. TetlockPhilip E. Tetlock is Leonore Annenberg University Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also written several non-fiction books on politics, including Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics and "Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We...
- Professor of Organizational Behavior, Haas School of Business - Paul TiffanyPaul TiffanyPaul Tiffany is a Senior Lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Decline of American Steel, How Management, Labor and Government Went Wrong and Business Plans for Dummies.Tiffany holds a BA from Loyola University, an MBA from...
(Ph.D. 1983) - Senior Lecturer, Haas School of Business - Laura D'Andrea TysonLaura D'Andrea TysonLaura D'Andrea Tyson is an American economist and former Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. She also served as Director of the National Economic Council...
- Professor of Economics, Professor of Business Administration, former Dean of the Haas School of Business and former chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers - Hal VarianHal VarianHal Ronald Varian is an economist specializing in microeconomics and information economics. He is the Chief Economist at Google and he holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information...
(M.A., Ph.D. 1973) - Professor of Economics, Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Information Management and Systems, and Chief Economist at GoogleGoogleGoogle Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program... - Oliver E. WilliamsonOliver E. WilliamsonOliver Eaton Williamson is an American economist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....
- Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics, and Law - Janet YellenJanet YellenJanet Louise Yellen is an American economist and professor, who is currently the Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
- Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San FranciscoFederal Reserve Bank of San FranciscoThe Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is the federal bank for the twelfth district in the United States. The twelfth district is made up of nine western states-—Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington--plus the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa,...
and former chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers - David VogelDavid Vogel (professor)David Vogel is the Soloman P. Lee Distinguished Professor in Business Ethics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of both the Political Science Department and the Haas School of Business, and is Editor of the California Management Review...
- Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Political Science
Chemistry
- Paul AlivisatosPaul AlivisatosArmand Paul Alivisatos is an American scientist of Greek descent, researching the structural, thermodynamic, optical, and electrical properties of nanocrystals...
(Ph.D. 1986) - Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Professor of Nanotechnology - Carolyn Bertozzi (Ph.D. 1993) - Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, MacArthur Fellow (1999), Howard HughesHoward Hughes Medical InstituteHoward Hughes Medical Institute is a United States non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded by the American businessman Howard Hughes in 1953. It is one of the largest private funding organizations for biological and medical research in the United...
Investigator and member of the National Academy of SciencesUnited States National Academy of SciencesThe National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and... - Leo BrewerLeo BrewerLeo Brewer 1919-2005 was an American physical chemist, considered by many to be the founder of modern high-temperature chemistry. He was born 13 June 1919 in St. Louis, Missouri and died 22 February 2005 in Lafayette, California, of the sequelae of Beryllium poisoning from his work in World War II...
- Professor of Chemistry; member of the NAS; father of high temperature chemistry and former Associate Director of Berkeley National Lab - David ChandlerDavid Chandler (chemist)David Chandler is a physical chemist who is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and a winner of the Irving Langmuir Award. He has published two books and over 200 scientific articles.-Biography:David...
- Professor of Chemistry - Robert E. ConnickRobert E. ConnickRobert E. Connick is a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.-Life:Connick studied Chemistry at Berkeley, receiving his B.S. in 1939 and his Ph.D. in 1942...
(Ph.D. 1942) - professor of chemistry, dean of college of chemistry, vice-chancellor - Graham R. FlemingGraham FlemingGraham R. Fleming is an American chemist, currently serving as professor, director of the Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, and the vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Berkeley.-Career:...
- Melvin Calvin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry (1997–present) - Jean FréchetJean FrechetProfessor Jean M.J. Fréchet is the Henry Rapoport Chair of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley...
- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and current Henry RapoportHenry RapoportHenry Rapoport was an internationally renowned organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is widely recognized for his work in the development of the chemical synthesis of biologically important compounds and pharmaceuticals.Henry Rapoport obtained a...
Chair of Organic Chemistry - Martin Head-GordonMartin Head-GordonMartin Philip Head-Gordon is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working in the area of computational quantum chemistry. He is a member of The International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.A native of Australia,...
- Professor of Chemistry - Clayton HeathcockClayton HeathcockClayton Heathcock is an organic chemist, Professor of Chemistry, and Dean of the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Heathcock is well known for his accomplishments in the synthesis of complex polycyclic natural products and for his contributions to the...
- Professor of Chemistry - Darleane C. HoffmanDarleane C. HoffmanDarleane C. Hoffman is an American nuclear chemist who was among the researchers who confirmed the existence of Seaborgium, element 106. She is a faculty senior scientist in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and a professor in the graduate school at UC Berkeley.She...
- Professor of Chemistry - Jay KeaslingJay KeaslingDr. Jay D. Keasling is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also Associate Laboratory Director for Biosciences at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Founding Head of the Synthetic Biology Department in...
- Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering - Sung-Hou KimKim Sung-HouKim Sung-Hou PhD is a Korean-born American structural biologist and biophysicist. Dr. Kim reported the first 3D structure of tRNA with A. Rich in 1973. He also published many papers on the structures of protein molecules including human Ras, human cyclin dependent kinase 2 and small heat shock...
- Professor of Chemistry - John KuriyanJohn KuriyanJohn Kuriyan is currently Chancellor's Professor at the University of California Berkeley in the departments of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry. He is also a Faculty Scientist in Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and a member of...
- Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - G.N. Lewis - Dean of the College of Chemistry, professor of physical chemistry
- William H. MillerWilliam H. Miller (chemistry)William H. Miller is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is a leading researcher in the field of theoretical chemistry. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science members. He was the 2007 recipient of the...
- Professor of Chemistry - Alexander PinesAlexander PinesAlexander Pines is the Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, Senior Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , and a member of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences and the Department of...
- Professor of Chemistry - Kenneth PitzerKenneth PitzerKenneth Sanborn Pitzer was an American physical and theoretical chemist, educator, and university president....
(Ph.D. 1937) - Dean of the College of Chemistry (1951–60), Professor of Chemistry, President of Rice University and Stanford University - Kenneth RaymondKen RaymondKenneth Norman Raymond is an expert in bioinorganic and coordination chemistry. He is a Chancellor's Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley, the Director of the Seaborg Center in the Chemical Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the President and...
- Professor of Chemistry - Richard J. SaykallyRichard J. SaykallyRichard J. Saykally is an American chemist. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He has received numerous awards and accolades for advanced research on the molecular characteristics of water.-Career:...
- Professor of Chemistry - Gabor A. SomorjaiGabor A. SomorjaiGabor A. Somorjai is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is a leading researcher in the field of surface chemistry and catalysis...
(Ph.D. 1960) - Professor of Chemistry - Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, a position he has held since 1956 .Ignacio Tinoco received a Bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico in 1951, and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1954. He...
- Professor of Chemistry
Civil engineering
- Frank BaronFrank BaronFrank Martin Baron served as professor of civil engineering at University of California, Berkeley and held an international reputation as an expert in the fields of bridge and roof-structure design, and seismic and wind analysis. He was twice the recipient of the prized Leon S...
- Professor of Civil Engineering - T. Y. LinT. Y. LinTung-Yen Lin was a structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete....
(M.S. 1933) - Professor of Civil Engineering, bridgebuilder - William GarrisonWilliam Garrison (geographer)William Louis Garrison is an American geographer and transportation analyst, currently a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. While at the University of Washington in the 1950s, Garrison led the "quantitative revolution" in geography, which applied computers and statistics...
- Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Computer science
- Brian A. BarskyBrian A. BarskyBrian A. Barsky, born in Montreal, is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley working in computer graphics and geometric modeling as well as in optometry and vision science. He is a Professor of Computer Science and Vision Science and an Affiliate Professor of Optometry...
- Professor of Computer Science and Affiliate Professor of Optometry and Vision Science - Eric BrewerEric Brewer (computer scientist)Eric A. Brewer is the main inventor of a wireless networking scheme called WiLDNet which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world. He was made a tenured professor at UC Berkeley at the age of 32. In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation. He is known for...
(B.S. 1989) - Professor of Computer Science - Michael BucklandMichael BucklandMichael Keeble Buckland is an Emeritus Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and Co-Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative....
- Professor Emeritus at the School of Information - John CannyJohn CannyJohn F. Canny is an Australian computer scientist, and Paul and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley...
- Professor of Computer Science - David CullerDavid CullerDavid E. Culler is a computer scientist, Chair of Computer Science & Associate Chair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. . He is the Principal Investigator in the LoCal project at Berkeley, and the Faculty Director of the i4Energy Center.Culler...
(B.A. 1980) - Professor of Computer Science - Richard FatemanRichard FatemanRichard J. Fateman is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.He received a BS in Physics and Mathematics from Union College in 1966, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1971. He was a major contributor to the Macsyma computer...
- Professor Emeritus of Computer Science - Susan L. GrahamSusan L. GrahamSusan L. Graham is a computer scientist. Graham is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science Division of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley...
- Professor of Computer Science - Joseph M. HellersteinJoseph M. HellersteinJoseph M. Hellerstein is professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he works on database systems and computer networks...
- Professor of Computer Science - Michael I. JordanMichael I. JordanMichael I. Jordan is a leading researcher in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Jordan was a prime mover behind popularising Bayesian networks in the machine learning community and is known for pointing out links between machine learning and statistics...
- Professor of Computer Science, highly-publicized academic in artificial intelligence. - Randy KatzRandy KatzRandy Howard Katz is a distinguished professor at University of California, Berkeley of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.Katz received an A.B. from Cornell University , MS from UC Berkeley , and Ph.D...
(M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1980) - Professor of Computer Science - Butler LampsonButler LampsonButler W. Lampson is a renowned computer scientist.After graduating from the Lawrenceville School , Lampson received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from Harvard University in 1964, and his Ph.D...
(Ph.D. 1967) - Professor of Computer Science and a founding member of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) - Peter NorvigPeter NorvigPeter Norvig is an American computer scientist. He is currently the Director of Research at Google Inc.-Educational Background:...
(Ph.D. 1985) - former research faculty member, the other co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - Geoffrey NunbergGeoffrey NunbergGeoffrey Nunberg is an American linguist and a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Nunberg has taught at Stanford University and served as a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from the mid-1980's to 2000...
- Professor, School of Information - James F. O'BrienJames F. O'BrienJames F. O'Brien is a computer graphics researcher and associate professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.-Education:...
- Associate Professor of Computer Science - John K. OusterhoutJohn OusterhoutJohn Kenneth Ousterhout is the chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc. and a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout previously was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley where he created the Tcl...
- Professor of Computer Science and creator of the TclTclTcl is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout. Originally "born out of frustration", according to the author, with programmers devising their own languages intended to be embedded into applications, Tcl gained acceptance on its own...
programming language and the TkTKTK, Tk or tk may refer to:In music:* TK * TK Records, a record label started by Henry StoneIn television:* Takeru "T.K." Takaishi, a character from Digimon anime* TK, a character in Angel Beats!...
platform-independent widget toolkit - Christos PapadimitriouChristos PapadimitriouChristos Harilaos Papadimitriou is a Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley, United States...
- Professor of Computer Science. Also a member of Lady X and the Positive Eigenvalues. - David A. Patterson - Professor of Computer Science, pioneer of RISC computer design and RAIDRAIDRAID is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit...
storage systems. - Vern PaxsonVern PaxsonVern Edward Paxson is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He also works as an Internet researcher based at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. His interests range from transport protocols to intrusion detection and worms...
(M.S., Ph.D. 1997) - Associate Professor of Computer Science - Stuart J. RussellStuart J. RussellStuart Russell is a computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence.Stuart Russell was born in Portsmouth, England. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in Physics from Wadham College, Oxford in 1982, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from...
- Professor of Computer Science, co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - Carlo H. SequinCarlo H. SequinDr. Carlo Heinrich Séquin was originally a physicist and has been a professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley in the USA since 1980. Séquin is recognized as one of the pioneers in processor design...
- Professor of Computer Science - Scott ShenkerScott ShenkerScott Shenker is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He is also the head of the Networking Group and the Vice President of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. He received his Sc.B. in Physics from Brown University in 1978, and his PhD in Physics from...
- Professor of Computer Science - Jonathan ShewchukJonathan ShewchukJonathan Richard Shewchuk is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.He obtained his B.S. in Physics and Computing Science from Simon Fraser University in 1990, and his M.S. and Ph.D...
- Associate Professor of Computer Science - Alan Jay SmithAlan Jay SmithDr. Alan Jay Smith is a computer scientist and researcher in the field of development and applications of caching strategies and the measurement and analysis of computer storage systems with many important contributions to the field...
- Professor of Computer Science - Luca TrevisanLuca TrevisanLuca Trevisan is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. As of winter 2010, he is on leave and an acting professor of computer science at Stanford University....
- Associate Professor of Computer Science - Claire J. TomlinClaire J. TomlinClaire Jennifer Tomlin is an American researcher in hybrid systems, distributed and decentralized optimization and control theory.-Life:...
(Ph.D. 1998) - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and MacArthur Fellow (2006) - Umesh VaziraniUmesh VaziraniUmesh Virkumar Vazirani is the Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the director of the Berkeley Quantum Computation Center. Vazirani was himself a Ph.D. student at Berkeley, receiving his Ph.D. in 1986 under the...
(Ph.D. 1986) - Professor of Computer Science - David Wagner (M.S. 1999, Ph.D. 2000) - Associate Professor of Computer Science, well-known researcher in cryptography.
- Lotfi A. Zadeh - Professor of Computer Science, "Father of Fuzzy LogicFuzzy logicFuzzy logic is a form of many-valued logic; it deals with reasoning that is approximate rather than fixed and exact. In contrast with traditional logic theory, where binary sets have two-valued logic: true or false, fuzzy logic variables may have a truth value that ranges in degree between 0 and 1...
1965," IEEE Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems 2000, IEEE Medal of HonorIEEE Medal of HonorThe IEEE Medal of Honor is the highest recognition of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . It has been awarded since 1917, when its first recipient was Major Edwin H. Armstrong. It is given for an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of...
, 1995
Economics
- David CardDavid CardDavid Edward Card is a Canadian labour economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.Card earned his B.A. degree from Queen's University in 1978 and his Ph.D. degree in Economics in 1983 from Princeton University....
- Professor of Economics, John Bates Clark MedalJohn Bates Clark MedalThe John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge"...
winner (1995) - J. Bradford DeLongJ. Bradford DeLongJames Bradford DeLong commonly known as Brad DeLong, is a professor of Economics and chair of the Political Economy major at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration under Lawrence...
- Professor of Economics - Barry EichengreenBarry EichengreenBarry Eichengreen is an American economist who holds the title of George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987...
- Professor of Economics and Political Science - Clark KerrClark KerrClark Kerr was an American professor of economics and academic administrator. He was the first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley and twelfth president of the University of California.- Early years :...
(Ph.D. 1939) - Professor of Industrial Relations, Chancellor (1952–58), UC President (1958–67) - Maurice ObstfeldMaurice ObstfeldMaurice Moses "Maury" Obstfeld is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley.He is well known for his work in international economics. He is among the most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc....
- Professor of Economics - Martha OlneyMartha OlneyMartha Olney is a permanent Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a winner of local and national teaching awards, and has authored several leading undergraduate economics textbooks.-Academic Life:...
(M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1985) - Adjunct Professor of Economics - Andreas PapandreouAndreas PapandreouAndreas G. Papandreou ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, a socialist politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics. The son of Georgios Papandreou, Andreas was a Harvard-trained academic...
- Professor and Chair of Economics, Prime Minister of GreecePrime Minister of GreeceThe Prime Minister of Greece , officially the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic , is the head of government of the Hellenic Republic and the leader of the Greek cabinet. The current interim Prime Minister is Lucas Papademos, a former Vice President of the European Central Bank, following... - Matthew RabinMatthew RabinMatthew Joel Rabin is the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley...
- Professor of Economics, MacArthur Fellow (2000) and John Bates Clark Medal winner (2001) - Gordon RausserGordon RausserGordon Rausser is a Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.He is an economist that has served on the Council of Economic advisors under President Ronald Reagan...
- Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics - James C. RobinsonJames C. Robinson (health economist)James C. Robinson is a professor of health economics at the University of California, Berkeley's school of public health. At Berkeley, he has the title of the Kaiser Permanente Distinguished Professor of Health Economics. Robinson is a contributing editor for the peer-reviewed academic journal...
, the Kaiser Permanente Distinguished Professor of Health Economics - Gérard Roland - Professor of Economics
- Christina RomerChristina RomerChristina D. Romer is the Class of 1957 Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration...
- Professor of Economics, former chair of the President's Council of Economic AdvisersCouncil of Economic AdvisersThe Council of Economic Advisers is an agency within the Executive Office of the President that advises the President of the United States on economic policy...
under Barack ObamaBarack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in... - David RomerDavid RomerDavid Romer is the Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley, the author of a standard textbook in graduate macroeconomics as well as many influential economic papers, particularly in the area of New Keynesian economics...
- Professor of Political Economy - Mark RubinsteinMark RubinsteinMark Edward Rubinstein is a leading financial economist and financial engineer. He is currently Professor of Finance at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is involved in teaching courses in the , an academic program that is focused on equipping...
- Paul Stephens Professor of Applied Investment Analysis, co-developer of the binomial tree method of options valuation
Education
- Andrea diSessaAndrea diSessaAndrea diSessa is an education researcher who was one of the developers of the Logo programming language and coauthored the book Turtle Geometry about Logo...
- Professor of Education - Arthur JensenArthur JensenArthur Robert Jensen is a Professor Emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jensen is known for his work in psychometrics and differential psychology, which is concerned with how and why individuals differ behaviorally from one another.He is a major proponent...
(B.A. 1945) - Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology - Jean LaveJean LaveJean Lave, PhD, is a social anthropologist and social learning theorist.She completed her doctorate in Social Anthropology at Harvard University in 1968...
- Professor Emerita of Education and Geography - Elliot TurielElliot TurielElliot Turiel is an American psychologist and Chancellor’s Professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley...
- Professor of Education
Electrical engineering
- Clarence CoryClarence CoryClarence Linus Cory is American engineer and educator who is known as the father of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.Clarence Cory was born in Lafayette, Indiana to Thomas Cory and Carrie Stoney. Clarence Cory's farther was an inventor and served as a topographer in...
- the first Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley - Leon O. ChuaLeon O. ChuaLeon Ong Chua is an IEEE Fellow and a professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1971...
- Professor of Electrical Engineering, "father of nonlinear circuit theory", inventor of Chua's circuitChua's circuitChua's circuit is a simple electronic circuit that exhibits classic chaos theory behavior. It was introduced in 1983 by Leon O. Chua, who was a visitor at Waseda University in Japan at that time...
, and first to postulate the existence of the solid stateSolid state (electronics)Solid-state electronics are those circuits or devices built entirely from solid materials and in which the electrons, or other charge carriers, are confined entirely within the solid material...
memristorMemristorMemristor is a passive two-terminal electrical component envisioned by Leon Chua as a fundamental non-linear circuit element relating charge and magnetic flux linkage... - David MesserschmittDavid MesserschmittDavid G. Messerschmitt is an engineer and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in the UC Berkeley College of Engineering. He retired from UC Berkeley in 2005...
- Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering - Donald PedersonDonald PedersonDonald O. Pederson was an American professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the designers of SPICE, the canonical integrated circuit simulator.- Biography :...
- Professor of Electrical Engineering, creator of SPICESPICESPICE is a general-purpose, open source analog electronic circuit simulator.It is a powerful program that is used in integrated circuit and board-level design to check the integrity of circuit designs and to predict circuit behavior.- Introduction :Unlike board-level designs composed of discrete...
, the canonical integrated circuit simulator. - Kristofer PisterKristofer S. J. PisterKristofer S. J. Pister is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at University of California, Berkeley and the founder and CTO of Dust Networks...
(M.S. 1989, Ph.D. 1992) - Professor of Electrical Engineering - Alberto Sangiovanni-VincentelliAlberto Sangiovanni-VincentelliAlberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli is an academic researcher, teacher, entrepreneur, technical advisor and business man. He is a co-founder of the two largest EDA companies: Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys, Inc....
- Professor of Electrical Engineering, Clerk Maxwell Award '09 - Shankar S. SastryShankar S. SastryS. Shankar Sastry is the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He currently holds the Nippon Electronics Corporation Distinguished Professorship in the College of Engineering and the Walter A. Haas School of Business. He was elected to the National Academy...
(M.S. 1979, M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1981) - Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Mechanical Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering - Otto J. M. SmithOtto J. M. SmithOtto J. M. Smith was an educator, inventor and author in the fields of engineering and electronics. He spent most of his career as a professor at University of California Berkeley. Dr...
- Professor of Electrical Engineering, inventor of the Smith predictor - Eli YablonovitchEli YablonovitchEli Yablonovitch along with Sajeev John, was one of the two applied physicists who invented the field of photonic crystals in 1987. He and his team were the first to create a 3-dimension structure that exhibited a full photonic bandgap, it is called Yablonovite...
- Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ethnic studies
- Evelyn Nakano GlennEvelyn Nakano GlennEvelyn Nakano Glenn is a Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to her teaching and research responsibilities she serves as Founding Director of the University's Center for Race and Gender . The CRG is a leading U.S...
(B.A. 1962) - Professor of Ethnic Studies, and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies - Michael OmiMichael OmiMichael Omi is an American sociologist. Professor Omi is best known for developing the theory of racial formation along with Howard Winant. Omi serves on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. Omi's work includes race theory, Asian American studies, and antiracist...
- Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies - Ronald TakakiRonald TakakiRonald Toshiyuki Takaki was an academic, historian, ethnographer and author. Born in Oahu, Hawai'i, his work addresses stereotypes of Asian Americans, such as the model minority concept.-Early life:...
(Ph.D. 1967) - Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies
Film studies
- Kaja SilvermanKaja SilvermanKaja Silverman is an American film theorist and art historian. She received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University. She taught at Yale University, Trinity College, Simon Fraser University, Brown University, the University of Rochester and the University of California, Berkeley, before joining...
- Class of 1940 Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric - Brett SimonBrett SimonBrett Simon is an American commercial, music video and film director.-Career:Simon graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing, and later graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 with...
(Ph.D. 2003) - Professor of Film Studies - Linda WilliamsLinda Williams (film critic)Linda Williams is a professor of film studies in the departments of Film Studies and Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley....
(B.A. 1969) - Professor of Film Studies
Foreign languages and culture
- Giorgio AgambenGiorgio AgambenGiorgio Agamben is an Italian political philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception and homo sacer....
- Visiting Chair of Italian Culture (1994), Department of Italian Studies - Robert AlterRobert AlterRobert Bernard Alter is an American professor of Hebrew language and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.-Biography:...
- Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature - Daniel BoyarinDaniel BoyarinDaniel Boyarin is an historian of religion. Born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, he holds dual United States and Israeli citizenship. Trained as a Talmudic scholar, in 1990 he was appointed Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California,...
- Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric - Michel FoucaultMichel FoucaultMichel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
- Visiting Professor of French (early 1980s) - George L. HartGeorge L. HartGeorge L. Hart is a professor of Tamil language at the University of California, Berkeley.Hart received his Ph.D. in Sanskrit from Harvard University and taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before joining the faculty at Berkeley...
- Professor of Tamil Studies - John LindowJohn LindowJohn Lindow is a professor specializing in Scandinavian medieval studies and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley and author. Lindow's works include Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Rituals, and Beliefs, a handbook for Norse mythology...
- Professor of Scandinavian - Yakov MalkielYakov MalkielYakov Malkiel was a U.S. Romance etymologist and philologist. His specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish...
- Professor of Spanish and Professor of Linguistics, 1943–1983; founded journal Romance Philology - James T. MonroeJames T. MonroeJames T. Monroe is an American scholar. He is emeritus professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, focusing on Classical Arabic Literature and Hispano-Arabic Literature...
- Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies - Johanna NicholsJohanna NicholsLinguist Johanna Nichols is a professor emerita on active duty in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include the Slavic languages, the linguistic prehistory of northern Eurasia, language typology, ancient linguistic...
(Ph.D 1973) - Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures - David StronachDavid StronachDavid Stronach is a Scottish archeologist of ancient Iran and Iraq. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.Stronach is a leading Western expert on the city of Pasargadae. He obtained an Master of Arts from Cambridge University in 1958. In the 1960s and 1970s he was...
- Professor of Near Eastern Studies - Frederic Wakeman, Jr. (Ph.D. 1965) - Haas Professor of Asian Studies, Professor of History, President Emeritus of the American Historical Association
Geology
- Walter AlvarezWalter AlvarezWalter Alvarez is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most widely known for the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact, developed in collaboration with his father, Nobel Prize winning physicist Luis...
- Professor of Geology - Garniss CurtisGarniss CurtisGarniss H. Curtis is a professor emeritus of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, geochronologist, volcanologist, geophysicist, and founder of the Berkeley Geochronology Center...
(Ph.D. 1951) - Professor Emeritus of Geology
History
- Herbert BoltonHerbert Eugene BoltonHerbert Eugene Bolton was an American historian and one of the most prominent authorities on Spanish American history...
- Sather Professor and Chair of History, First Director of Bancroft LibraryBancroft LibraryThe Bancroft Library is the primary special collections library of the University of California, Berkeley. It was acquired as a gift/purchase from its founder, Hubert Howe Bancroft, with the proviso that it retain the name Bancroft Library in perpetuity... - Beshara DoumaniBeshara DoumaniBeshara Doumani is a Palestinian-American professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley specializing in Middle Eastern history...
- Associate Professor of History
- David HollingerDavid HollingerDavid Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His specialty is in American intellectual history. His source book, The American Intellectual Tradition, is amongst the most widely used textbooks in college undergraduate courses focusing on...
(M.A. 1965, Ph.D. 1970) - Professor of American History - Martin JayMartin JayMartin Jay is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a renowned Intellectual Historian and his research interests have been groundbreaking in connecting history with other academic and intellectual activities, such as the Critical Theory of...
- Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History
- Adrienne KochAdrienne KochAdrienne Koch was an American historian, a specialist in American history of the eighteenth century.-Education:After her bachelor's degree from New York University, Koch took her master's degree and a doctorate in history from Columbia.-Teaching career:Koch taught at Tulane, Berkeley, and the...
- Professor of History - Leon F. LitwackLeon F. LitwackLeon F. Litwack is an American historian and Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley, where he received the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2007...
(B.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1958) - Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
(Been in the Storm So Long [1980]), Morrison Professor of American History - Nicholas V. RiasanovskyNicholas V. RiasanovskyNicholas Valentine Riasanovsky was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of numerous books on Russian history. He was born in Harbin, China to lawyer Valentin A. Riasanovskii and Antonia Riasanovskii, a novelist...
- Professor Emeritus of History - Yuri SlezkineYuri SlezkineYuri Slezkine is a professor of Russian history and Director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known as the author of the highly acclaimed book The Jewish Century...
- Professor of History - Derek Van RheenenDerek Van RheenenDerek Van Rheenen is a retired U.S. soccer defender who played his entire career with three San Francisco based clubs.-Youth and college:...
(B.A. 1986, M.A. 1993, Ph.D. 1997) - Director of the Athletic Study Center; has taught courses in American Studies and the School of Education
Industrial engineering
- Stuart DreyfusStuart DreyfusA native of Terre Haute, Indiana, Stuart E. Dreyfus is Professor Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department. While at the Rand Corporation he was a programmer of the JOHNNIAC computer. While at Rand he was coauthor, with Richard...
- Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research - Ken GoldbergKen GoldbergKenneth Y. Goldberg is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and OperationsResearch , with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering and...
- Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research - Ashok GadgilAshok GadgilAshok Gadgil is a physicist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, and a professor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for "UV Waterworks" - a simple, effective and inexpensive water disinfection system.-Education:He...
(M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1979) - Adjunct Professor, Energy and Resources Group
Law
- Robert BerringBob BerringRobert Charles "Bob" Berring, Jr. is a noted figure in law, as a professor, librarian, scholar and researcher.-Biography:...
(J.D., M.L.S. 1974) - Professor of Law - Robert CooterRobert CooterRobert D. Cooter, a pioneer in the field of law and economics, began teaching in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley in 1975 and joined the Boalt Hall faculty in 1980. He has been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a recipient of various awards and...
- Professor of Law - Maria EchavesteMaria EchavesteMaria Echaveste , is a former U.S. presidential advisor to Bill Clinton and White House Deputy Chief of Staff under the second Clinton administration. She is one of the highest-ranking Latinas to have served in a presidential administration...
(J.D. 1980) - Lecturer in Residence, School of Law, and former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill ClintonBill ClintonWilliam Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation... - Christopher Edley, Jr.Christopher Edley, Jr.Christopher Fairchild Edley, Jr. is Dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law . After receiving his undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College, he attended Harvard Law School, where he later served as a professor. He is married to Maria Echaveste, former deputy chief of staff...
- Dean, School of Law - Aaron EdlinAaron EdlinProfessor and author Aaron S. Edlin is a noted expert in law and economics, specializing in antitrust. In 1997–1998, he served in the Clinton White House as Senior Economist within the Council of Economic Advisers focusing on the areas of industrial organization, regulation and antitrust...
- Professor of Economics, Professor of Law - Bernard L. DiamondBernard L. DiamondBernard Lee Diamond was a Professor of law and psychiatry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is primarily known for his contribution to what is known as forensic psychiatry. He was an expert witness for the defense in many well known trials, most notably the trial of Sirhan Sirhan, the...
- Professor of Law and Psychiatry - Daniel A. FarberDaniel A. Farber-Life and work:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Farber graduated the University of Illinois, earning his B.A. , M.A. , and J.D. degrees. He graduated summa cum laude from the College of Law, where he was class valedictorian...
- Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Law Program - Angela P. HarrisAngela P. HarrisAngela P. Harris is a legal scholar in the fields of critical race theory, feminist legal scholarship, and criminal law. She has taught these subjects at UC Berkeley School of Law since joining the faculty there in 1988. In 2009, Professor Harris joined the faculty of the State University of New...
- Professor of Law - William A. FletcherWilliam A. FletcherWilliam A. Fletcher is a United States federal appeals court judge who has sat on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1998.-Education and legal training:...
- Professor Emeritus of Law and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - Phillip E. JohnsonPhillip E. JohnsonPhillip E. Johnson is a retired UC Berkeley law professor and author. He became a born-again Christian while a tenured professor and is considered the father of the intelligent design movement...
- Professor Emeritus of Law, considered the father of the intelligent design movementIntelligent design movementThe intelligent design movement is a neo-creationist religious campaign for broad social, academic and political change to promote and support the idea of "intelligent design," which asserts that "certain features of the universe and of living things are... - Hans Kelsen - Professor of Law, one of the preeminent jurists of the 20th century
- John T. Noonan, Jr.John T. Noonan, Jr.John Thomas Noonan, Jr. is a Senior Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with chambers in San Francisco, California. He was appointed in 1985 by President Ronald Reagan.-Education and practice:...
- Professor Emeritus of Law and Senior Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - Pamela SamuelsonPamela SamuelsonPamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information Management at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the UC Berkeley School of Information and Boalt Hall, the School of Law. She was appointed Visiting Professor of Law at...
- Professor of Law, Professor of Information Management and Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology - Philip SelznickPhilip SelznickPhilip Selznick was professor of law and society at the University of California, Berkeley. A noted author in organizational theory, sociology of law and public administration, Selznick's work has been groundbreaking in several fields in such books as The Moral Commonwealth, TVA and the Grass...
- Professor Emeritus of Law and Sociology - Jonathan SimonJonathan SimonJonathan Simon is the Associate Dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at Boalt Hall School of Law at University of California, Berkeley, author of Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear and Poor Discipline: Parole and...
(B.A. 1981, J.D. 1987, Ph.D. 1990) - Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, School of Law - Jerome Herbert Skolnick - Professor Emeritus of Law
- Eleanor SwiftEleanor SwiftEleanor Swift is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law. She is best known for her work on the theory of evidence, and additionally teaches civil procedure, the legal profession, and periodic seminars.-Early career:...
- Professor of Law - John YooJohn YooJohn Choon Yoo is an American attorney, law professor, and author. As a former official in the United States Department of Justice during the George W...
- Professor of Law, contributor to the PATRIOT Act
Linguistics
- Larry Hyman - Professor of Linguistics
- Sharon InkelasSharon InkelasSharon Inkelas is a Professor and Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in phonology interfaces and particularly in the interaction between morphology and phonology....
- Professor of Linguistics - Robin LakoffRobin LakoffRobin Tolmach Lakoff is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.Lakoff's writings have become the basis for much research on the subject of women's language. In a 1973 article , she published ten basic assumptions about what she felt constituted a special women's...
- Professor of Linguistics - Paul KayPaul KayPaul Kay is an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, United States. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferring to the Department of Linguistics in 1982 and now working at the International Computer Science...
- Professor Emeritus of Linguistics - George LakoffGeorge LakoffGeorge P. Lakoff is an American cognitive linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972...
- Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science - James MatisoffJames MatisoffJames A. Matisoff is a professor emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley and noted authority on Tibeto-Burman languages and other languages of mainland Southeast Asia....
(Ph.D 1967) - Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, expert in the Tibeto-Burman languagesTibeto-Burman languagesThe Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Chinese members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken thoughout the highlands of southeast Asia, as well as lowland areas in Burma .... - Maria MavroudiMaria MavroudiMaria Mavroudi is a history professor at University of California, Berkeley.Fluent in classical Greek and Arabic, she also understands Coptic, Latin, and Syriac, and speaks modern Greek and English fluently...
- Professor of History - John OhalaJohn OhalaJohn Ohala is a Professor Emeritus in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in phonetics and phonology.He received his PhD in Linguistics in 1969 from University of California, Los Angeles ; his graduate advisor was Peter Ladefoged. He is best known for his...
- Professor Emeritus of Linguistics - Eve SweetserEve SweetserEve Sweetser is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley in 1984, and has been a member of the Berkeley faculty since that time...
(Ph.D. 1984) - Professor of Linguistics
Literature and rhetoric
- Yehuda AmichaiYehuda AmichaiYehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew....
- Visiting Professor - Lowell BergmanLowell BergmanLowell A. Bergman is an American investigative reporter with The New York Times and a producer/correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline...
- Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor of Journalism - Judith ButlerJudith ButlerJudith Butler is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley.Butler received her Ph.D...
- Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature - Frederick Crews - Professor Emeritus of English
- Stanley FishStanley FishStanley Eugene Fish is an American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island...
- Professor of English (1962–1974) - Thomas FlanaganThomas Flanagan (writer)Thomas Flanagan was an American professor of English literature who specialized in Irish literature. He was also a successful novelist. Flanagan, who was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, graduated from Amherst College in 1945...
- Professor of English, author of The Year of the French, winner of 1979 National Critics Circle Award for fiction. - Catherine GallagherCatherine GallagherCatherine Gallagher is a historicist literary critic and Victorianist and is currently Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is The Body Economic : Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel...
(B.A. 1972, M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1979) - Eggers Professor of English - Stephen GreenblattStephen GreenblattStephen Jay Greenblatt is a literary critic, theorist and scholar.Greenblatt is regarded by many as one of the founders of New Historicism, a set of critical practices that he often refers to as "cultural poetics"; his works have been influential since the early 1980s when he introduced the term...
- Professor of English (1969–1997) - Erich S. GruenErich S. GruenErich Stephen Gruen is an American classicist and ancient historian. He was the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught full-time from 1966 until 2008...
- Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics - Thom GunnThom GunnThom Gunn, born Thomson William Gunn , was an Anglo-American poet who was praised both for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America, even after moving toward a looser, free-verse style...
- Senior Lecturer, MacArthur Fellow (1993) - Robert HassRobert HassRobert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:...
- U.S. Poet Laureate, National Book AwardNational Book AwardThe National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
Winner, Professor of English - Evelyn Fox KellerEvelyn Fox KellerEvelyn Fox Keller is an American physicist, author and feminist. She is currently a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller has also taught at the State University of New York at Purchase, New York University and in the department of...
- Professor of Rhetoric, History, and Women's Studies (1988–1992) - Maxine Hong KingstonMaxine Hong KingstonMaxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United...
(B.A. 1962) - author (Woman Warrior), Senior Lecturer - Ron LoewinsohnRon LoewinsohnRon Loewinsohn is an American poet and novelist.Trout Fishing in America is dedicated to Loewinsohn and poet Jack Spicer.- Works :* Watermelons, New York: Totem Press, 1959...
- Professor Emeritus of English - A. A. LongA. A. LongAnthony Arthur Long is a British and naturalised American classical scholar and Professor of Classics and Irving Stone Professor of Literature at the University of California, Berkeley....
- Professor of Classics and Professor of Literature - Walter Benn MichaelsWalter Benn MichaelsWalter Benn Michaels is an American literary theorist, known as the author of Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism and The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History...
- Professor of English (1977–1987) - D. A. MillerD. A. MillerD. A. Miller is an American literary critic, working mostly on the novel, especially of the Victorian era, as well as on film and different aspects of gender and sexuality studies...
- John F. Hotchkis Professor of English - Bharati MukherjeeBharati MukherjeeBharati Mukherjee is an award-winning Indian-born American writer. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.-Background:...
- Professor of English - Geoffrey G. O'BrienGeoffrey G. O'BrienGeoffrey G. O'Brien is an American poet. Educated at Harvard University and the University of Iowa, O'Brien has taught at Brooklyn College, The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been the Distinguished Poet in Residence at St. Mary's College of California and the Holloway Lecturer in the...
- Assistant Professor of English - Michael PollanMichael PollanMichael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. A 2006 New York Times book review describes him as a "liberal foodie intellectual."...
- Knight Professor of Journalism - Josiah RoyceJosiah RoyceJosiah Royce was an American objective idealist philosopher.-Life:Royce, born in Grass Valley, California, grew up in pioneer California very soon after the California Gold Rush. He received the B.A...
- Professor of Composition and Literature - Peter Dale ScottPeter Dale ScottPeter Dale Scott is a Canadian born, former English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a former diplomat and a poet....
- Professor Emeritus of English
Mathematics
- David AldousDavid AldousDavid John Aldous, FRS is a mathematician known for his research on mathematical probability theory and its applications, in particular in topics such as exchangeability, weak convergence, Markov chain mixing times, the continuum random tree and stochastic coalescence. He entered St. John's...
- Professor of Mathematics - William ArvesonWilliam ArvesonWilliam Arveson was a mathematician specializing in operator algebras who worked as a professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Arveson obtained his Ph. D. from UCLA in 1964....
- Professor Emeritus of Mathematics - Grigory BarenblattGrigory BarenblattGrigory Isaakovich Barenblatt is a Russian mathematician. He graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from Moscow State University under the supervision of A. N. Kolmogorov. He also received a D.Sc. from Moscow State...
- Professor of Mathematics - Phillip GriffithsPhillip GriffithsPhillip Griffiths is an American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry. He was a major developer in particular of the theory of variation of Hodge structure in Hodge theory and moduli theory.He received...
, mathematician, winner of the Laureates of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1986. - Elwyn BerlekampElwyn BerlekampElwyn Ralph Berlekamp is an American mathematician. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics and EECS at the University of California, Berkeley. Berlekamp is known for his work in information theory and combinatorial game theory....
- Professor of Mathematics - David BlackwellDavid Blackwell-Honors and awards:*President, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1956*National Academy of Sciences, 1965*American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1968*Honorary Fellow, Royal Statistical Society, 1976*Vice President, American Statistical Association, 1978...
- Professor Emeritus of Statistics - Shiing-Shen ChernShiing-Shen ChernShiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century.-Early years in China:...
- leading differential geometer, Professor of Mathematics - Alexandre ChorinAlexandre ChorinAlexandre J. Chorin is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in applied mathematics. He is known for his contributions to the field of Computational fluid dynamics....
- Professor of Mathematics - William CraigWilliam Craig (logician)William Lane Craig is Emeritus professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. His interests include mathematical logic, and philosophy of science. He is mostly known for the Craig interpolation theorem.Craig received his Ph.D. at Harvard University.-...
- Professor of Philosophy (Mathematical Logic) - David EisenbudDavid EisenbudDavid Eisenbud is an American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and was Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute from 1997 to 2007....
- Professor of Mathematics and former director of the Mathematical Sciences Research InstituteMathematical Sciences Research InstituteThe Mathematical Sciences Research Institute , founded in 1982, is an independent nonprofit mathematical research institution whose funding sources include the National Science Foundation, foundations, corporations, and more than 90 universities and institutions... - Andreas FloerAndreas FloerAndreas Floer was a German mathematician who made seminal contributions to the areas of geometry, topology, and mathematical physics, in particular the invention of Floer homology.-Life:...
- Professor of Mathematics (1988–1990), developed Floer homologyFloer homologyFloer homology is a mathematical tool used in the study of symplectic geometry and low-dimensional topology. First introduced by Andreas Floer in his proof of the Arnold conjecture in symplectic geometry, Floer homology is a novel homology theory arising as an infinite dimensional analog of finite... - David FreedmanDavid A. Freedman (statistician)David A. Freedman was Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a distinguished mathematical statistician whose wide-ranging research included the analysis of martingale inequalities, Markov processes, de Finetti's theorem, consistency of Bayes estimators, sampling,...
- Professor of Statistics - Alexander GiventalAlexander GiventalAlexander Givental is a Russian American mathematician working in the area of symplectic topology, singularity theory and their relations to topological string theories. He got his Ph. D. under the supervision of V. I. Arnold. He, first, proved the mirror conjecture for toric Calabi-Yau manifolds,...
- Professor of Mathematics - Mark HaimanMark HaimanMark David Haiman is a mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who proved theMacdonald positivity conjecture for Macdonald polynomials.-References:* Haiman's *Mark Haiman J. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 , 941–1006...
- Professor of Mathematics - Leo HarringtonLeo HarringtonLeo Anthony Harrington is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works inrecursion theory, model theory, and set theory.* Harrington and Jeff Paris proved the Paris–Harrington theorem....
- Professor of Mathematics - Jenny HarrisonJenny HarrisonJenny Harrison is a professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley. She specializes in geometric analysis and areas in the intersection of algebra, geometry, and geometric measure theory...
- Professor of Mathematics - Robin HartshorneRobin HartshorneRobin Cope Hartshorne is an American mathematician. Hartshorne is an algebraic geometer who studied with Zariski, Mumford, J.-P. Serre and Grothendieck....
- Professor Emeritus of Mathematics - Leon HenkinLeon HenkinLeon Albert Henkin was a logician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was principally known for the "Henkin's completeness proof": his version of the proof of the semantic completeness of standard systems of first-order logic.-The completeness proof:Henkin's result was not novel; it had...
- Professor of Mathematics - Theodore KaczynskiTheodore KaczynskiTheodore John "Ted" Kaczynski , also known as the "Unabomber" , is an American mathematician, social critic, anarcho-primitivist, and Neo-Luddite who engaged in a mail bombing campaign that spanned nearly 20 years, killing three people and injuring 23 others.Kaczynski was born in Chicago, Illinois,...
- the Unabomber, Assistant Professor of Mathematics - Robion KirbyRobion KirbyRobion Cromwell Kirby is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who specializes in low-dimensional topology...
- Professor of Mathematics - Shoshichi KobayashiShoshichi Kobayashiis a famous Japanese mathematician. His research areas are Riemannian and complex manifolds, and infinite Lie groups.He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1953. In 1956, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Washington...
- Professor Emeritus of Mathematics - Hendrik LenstraHendrik LenstraHendrik Willem Lenstra, Jr. is a Dutch mathematician.-Biography:Lenstra received his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam in 1977 and became a professor there in 1978...
- Professor Emeritus of Mathematics - Michel LoèveMichel LoèveMichel Loève was a French American probabilist and a mathematical statistician, of Palestinian Jewish origin. His name is known to probabilists and statisticians because of the Karhunen–Loève theorem and Karhunen–Loève transform.Michel Loève was born in Jaffa, Palestine in 1907, during the Ottoman...
- Professor of Mathematics and Statistics - Charles B. Morrey, Jr.Charles B. Morrey, Jr.Charles Bradfield Morrey Jr. was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the calculus of variations and the theory of partial differential equations.- Life :Charles Bradfield Morrey Jr...
- Professor of Mathematics, department chair 1949-1954 - Marina RatnerMarina RatnerMarina Ratner is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in ergodic theory. Around 1990 she proved a group of major theorems concerning unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces, known as Ratner's theorems. Ratner was awarded the Ostrowski Prize in 1993 and...
- Professor of Mathematics - Nicolai ReshetikhinNicolai ReshetikhinNicolai Yuryevich Reshetikhin is a mathematical physicist, currently a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and a professor of mathematical physics at the University of Amsterdam. His research is in the fields of low-dimensional topology, representation theory, and...
- Professor of Mathematics - Ken Ribet - Professor of Mathematics, contributor to the proof of Fermat's last theoremFermat's Last TheoremIn number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than two....
- Rainer K. SachsRainer Kurt SachsRainer Kurt Sachs is a German-American computational radiation biologist and astronomer. In particular he and Arthur Michael Wolfe were the authors of the Sachs-Wolfe effect, which concerns a property of the Cosmic microwave background radiation.- Life and career :He was born in Frankfurt am Main...
- Professor Emeritus of Mathematics - James SethianJames SethianJames Albert Sethian is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the head of the Mathematics Group at the United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory....
(Ph.D. 1982) - Professor of Mathematics - Jack SilverJack SilverJack Howard Silver is a set theorist and logician at the University of California, Berkeley. He has made several deep contributions to set theory...
(Ph.D. 1966) - Professor of Mathematics - Theodore SlamanTheodore SlamanTheodore Allen Slaman is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in recursion theory.Slaman and W. Hugh Woodin formulated the Bi-interpretability Conjecture for the Turing degrees, which conjectures that the partial order of the Turing degrees is logically...
- Professor of Mathematics - John R. SteelJohn R. SteelJohn Robert Steel is a set theorist at University of California, Berkeley . He has made many contributions to the theory of inner models and determinacy. With Donald A. Martin, he proved projective determinacy, assuming the existence of sufficient large cardinals. He earned his Ph.D...
(Ph.D. 1977) - Professor of Mathematics, set theorist - Bernd SturmfelsBernd SturmfelsBernd Sturmfels is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.He received his PhD in 1987 from the University of Washington and the Technische Universität Darmstadt...
- Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science - Alfred TarskiAlfred TarskiAlfred Tarski was a Polish logician and mathematician. Educated at the University of Warsaw and a member of the Lwow-Warsaw School of Logic and the Warsaw School of Mathematics and philosophy, he emigrated to the USA in 1939, and taught and carried out research in mathematics at the University of...
- Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy - Paul VojtaPaul VojtaPaul Alan Vojta is an American mathematician, known for his work in number theory on diophantine geometry and diophantine approximation....
- Professor of Mathematics - Dan-Virgil VoiculescuDan-Virgil VoiculescuDan-Virgil Voiculescu is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in single operator theory, operator K-theory and von Neumann algebras. More recently, he developed free probability theory....
- Professor of Mathematics - Alan WeinsteinAlan WeinsteinAlan David Weinstein is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in symplectic geometry, Poisson Geometry and Mathematical Physics....
(Ph.D. 1967) - Professor of Mathematics - W. Hugh WoodinW. Hugh WoodinWilliam Hugh Woodin is an American mathematician and set theorist at University of California, Berkeley. He has made many notable contributions to the theory of inner models and determinacy. A type of large cardinal, the Woodin cardinal, bears his name.-Biography:Born in Tucson, Arizona, Woodin...
- Professor of Mathematics, set theorist
Mechanical engineering
- Hans Albert Einstein - Professor of Hydraulic Engineering (1947 - 1970 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/WRCA/einstein.html), son of Albert EinsteinAlbert EinsteinAlbert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...
- Carlos Fernandez-PelloCarlos Fernandez-PelloProf. Carlos Fernández-Pello is a faculty member of the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Mechanical Engineering...
- Professor of Mechanical EngineeringUC Berkeley College of EngineeringThe College of Engineering is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. The College of Engineering is ranked second in the nation, after MIT, according to the 2010 U.S. News & World Report rankings; It houses one of the most highly regarded and prestigious...
and research scientist in combustionCombustionCombustion or burning is the sequence of exothermic chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat and conversion of chemical species. The release of heat can result in the production of light in the form of either glowing or a flame...
. - Chang-Lin TienChang-Lin TienChang-lin Tien was a Chinese American professor of mechanical engineering and university administrator. He was the seventh Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley , the first Asian to head a major university in the United States.-Early years:Born in Huangpi, Wuhan, China, Tien and...
- University Professor (UC system), NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Chancellor of Berkeley campus (1990–1997)
Music
- David Dodge BoydenDavid Dodge BoydenDavid Dodge Boyden was an American musicologist and violinist specializing in organology and performance practice.-Education:...
- Professor Emeritus of Musicology - Arnold ElstonArnold ElstonArnold Elston was an American composer and educator. Though he studied with Anton Webern, he did not himself use the twelve-tone technique.-Early life and career:...
- Professor of Music 1958–71 - Joseph KermanJoseph KermanJoseph Wilfred Kerman is an American critic and musicologist. One of the leading musicologists of his generation, his 1985 book Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology was described by Philip Brett in The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as "a defining moment in the field." He is...
- Professor Emeritus of Music - Davitt MoroneyDavitt MoroneyDavitt Moroney is a British-born and educated musicologist, harpsichordist and organist. His parents were of Irish and Italian extraction – his father was an executive with the Anglo-Dutch Unilever conglomerate...
(Ph.D. 1980) - Professor of Music - Anthony NewcombAnthony NewcombAnthony Newcomb is an American musicologist. He was born in New York and studied at the University of California, Berkeley where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1962. He then studied with Gustav Leonhardt in Holland while on a Fulbright Scholarship...
- Professor Emeritus of Music - Richard TaruskinRichard TaruskinRichard Taruskin is an American-Russian musicologist, music historian, and critic who has written about the theory of performance, Russian music, fifteenth-century music, twentieth-century music, nationalism, the theory of modernism, and analysis. As a choral conductor he directed the Columbia...
- Professor of Music - Olly WilsonOlly WilsonOlly Woodrow Wilson, Jr. is a prominent American composer of contemporary classical music, pianist, double bassist, and musicologist. He is one of the preeminent living composers of African American descent.-Life:...
- Professor Emeritus of Music
Philosophy
- William CraigWilliam Craig (logician)William Lane Craig is Emeritus professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. His interests include mathematical logic, and philosophy of science. He is mostly known for the Craig interpolation theorem.Craig received his Ph.D. at Harvard University.-...
- Professor Emeritus of Philosophy - Donald DavidsonDonald Davidson (philosopher)Donald Herbert Davidson was an American philosopher born in Springfield, Massachusetts, who served as Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley from 1981 to 2003 after having also held teaching appointments at Stanford University, Rockefeller University, Princeton...
- philosopher, Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy - Hubert DreyfusHubert DreyfusHubert Lederer Dreyfus is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley....
- Professor of Philosophy - Paul FeyerabendPaul FeyerabendPaul Karl Feyerabend was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for three decades . He lived a peripatetic life, living at various times in England, the United States, New Zealand,...
- Professor of Philosophy - Thomas KuhnThomas KuhnThomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was deeply influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term "paradigm shift," which has since become an English-language staple.Kuhn...
- Professor of the Philosophy and History of Science (1956–1964) - John SearleJohn SearleJohn Rogers Searle is an American philosopher and currently the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.-Biography:...
- Professor of Philosophy - Hans SlugaHans SlugaHans D. Sluga is a German academic, who is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches and writes on, among other things, Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, and German philosophy in the Nazi period.He studied at the...
- Professor of Philosophy - Barry StroudBarry StroudBarry Stroud is a philosopher known for his work on philosophical skepticism, David Hume, and Wittgenstein, among other topics. He received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Toronto, followed by a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University, under the direction of Morton White. Since...
- Professor of Philosophy - Alfred TarskiAlfred TarskiAlfred Tarski was a Polish logician and mathematician. Educated at the University of Warsaw and a member of the Lwow-Warsaw School of Logic and the Warsaw School of Mathematics and philosophy, he emigrated to the USA in 1939, and taught and carried out research in mathematics at the University of...
- Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy - R. Jay WallaceR. Jay WallaceR. Jay Wallace is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His area of specialization is moral philosophy. He is most noted for his work on practical reason, moral psychology, and meta-ethics.-Biography:...
- Professor of Philosophy - Bernard WilliamsBernard WilliamsSir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams was an English moral philosopher, described by The Times as the most brilliant and most important British moral philosopher of his time. His publications include Problems of the Self , Moral Luck , Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy , and Truth and Truthfulness...
- Professor of Philosophy - Richard WollheimRichard WollheimRichard Arthur Wollheim was a British philosopher noted for original work on mind and emotions, especially as related to the visual arts, specifically, painting...
- Professor of Philosophy
Physics
- John ClarkeJohn Clarke (physicist)John Clarke is an English physicist and a Professor of Experimental Physics at University of California at Berkeley.Clarke received BA, MA, and Ph.D. in Physics from Cambridge University in 1964, 1968, and 1968, respectively....
- Professor of Physics - Robert C. DynesRobert C. DynesRobert C. Dynes is a Canadian-American physicist, researcher, and academic administrator, and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the former President of the University of California system, and former Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego.-Early...
- Professor of Physics and former President of the University of CaliforniaUniversity of CaliforniaThe University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
system - Gerson GoldhaberGerson GoldhaberGerson Goldhaber was an American particle physicist and astrophysicist. He was one of the discoverers of the J/ψ meson which confirmed the existence of the charm quark...
- Professor Emeritus of Physics - Frances HellmanFrances HellmanFrances Hellman is a physicist at University of California, Berkeley who studies the thermodynamic properties of novel solid materials, especially thin film semiconducting, superconducting, and magnetic materials. She is currently the chairwoman of the physics department and holds a dual...
- Professor of Physics - J. D. JacksonJ. D. JacksonJohn David Jackson is a Canadian–American physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
- Professor Emeritus of Physics - Charles KittelCharles KittelCharles Kittel is an American physicist. He was a Professor at University of California, Berkeley from 1951 and has been Professor Emeritus since 1978.- Life and work :...
- Professor Emeritus of Physics - Richard A. MullerRichard A. MullerRichard A. Muller is a noted American professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.-Career:...
- Professor of Physics, MacArthur Fellow (1982) - Robert OppenheimerRobert OppenheimerJulius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with Enrico Fermi, he is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first...
- Professor of Physics, scientific head of the Manhattan ProjectManhattan ProjectThe Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army...
, "father of the atomic bomb" - P. Buford PriceP. Buford PricePaul Buford Price, usually known as P. Buford Price, is a professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the National Academy of Sciences...
- Professor of Physics - Julian SchwingerJulian SchwingerJulian Seymour Schwinger was an American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics, in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order.Schwinger is recognized as one of the...
- theoretical physicistPhysicistA physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
, National Research fellow - Edward TellerEdward TellerEdward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb," even though he did not care for the title. Teller made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy , and surface physics...
- Professor of Physics, "father of the hydrogen bomb" - Ahmet YildizAhmet YildizAhmet Yıldız is a Turkish professor of Physics and Molecular Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has contributed significantly to the understanding of how motor proteins walk along their filaments....
- Assistant Professor of Physics and Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Alex ZettlAlex ZettlAlex Zettl is an American professor of experimental condensed-matter physics. His research involving the properties of novel materials have produced significant advances in the field.-Biography:...
(B.A. 1978) - Professor of Physics - Bruno ZuminoBruno ZuminoBruno Zumino is an Italian theoretical physicist and emeritus faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He got his bachelor degree from the University of Rome in 1945...
- Professor of Physics
Political science
- Vinod K. AggarwalVinod AggarwalVinod K. Aggarwal is Professor of Political Science, Affiliated Professor in the Haas School of Business, and directs the Berkeley APEC Study Center at the University of California at Berkeley. He isa Visiting Professor at INSEAD's Asia campus, a blogger for the Harvard Business Review, and has...
- Professor of Political Science and Director of Berkeley APEC Study CenterBerkeley APEC Study CenterThe Berkeley APEC Study Center is a research center at the University of California, Berkeley. Created in 1996 in response to an initiative by U.S... - Mark BevirMark BevirMark Bevir is a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently teaches courses on political theory and philosophy, and public policy and organization....
- Professor of Political Science - Wendy Brown - Professor of Political Science
- Bruce E. CainBruce E. CainBruce E. Cain is the Heller Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley and Executive Director of the University of California, Washington Center. Professor Cain’s fields of interest include American politics, democratic theory and state and local government. He has written extensively on...
- Professor of Political Science - David CollierDavid Collier (political scientist)David Collier is Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He works in the fields of comparative politics, Latin American politics, and methodology...
- Professor of Political Science - Walden BelloWalden BelloWalden Bello is a Filipino author, academic, and political analyst. He is a professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines Diliman, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global South...
- Founder of the Focus on the Global SouthFocus on the Global SouthFocus on the Global South is an international, non-governmental organisation, based in Bangkok, Thailand since its creation in 1995.Its founding director is sociologist Walden Bello, and it is affiliated with the Social Research Institute of Chulalongkorn University...
, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and Outstanding Public Scholar for 2008 by the International Studies AssociationInternational Studies AssociationThe International Studies Association was founded by a group of scholars and practitioners in 1959 to pursue mutual interests in international studies. Representing eighty countries, ISA has over three thousand members worldwide and is the most respected and widely known scholarly association in...
. 2003 recipient of the Right Livelihood AwardRight Livelihood AwardThe Right Livelihood Award, also referred to as the "Alternative Nobel Prize", is a prestigious international award to honour those "working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today". The prize was established in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull, and is...
, described as ""one of the leading critics of the current model of economic globalization, combining the roles of intellectual and activist." - Richard FeachemRichard FeachemSir Richard George Andrew Feachem, KBE, FREng is Professor of Global Health at both the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the at UCSF Global Health Sciences...
- Professor of Global Health - Peter D. HartPeter D. HartPeter D. Hart is the chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates since 1971, and is a Senior Counselor to . Together with Robert Teeter or Bill McInturff, Mr. Hart and his company have provided NBC News and The Wall Street Journal with polls since 1989. More than 40 U.S...
- Visiting Lecturer of Political Science - Ira Michael HeymanIra Michael HeymanIra Michael Heyman was an Emeritus Professor of Law and of City and Regional Planning, and was Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley, and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.-Life:...
- Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, and Professor Emeritus of Law - Allan JacobsAllan JacobsAllan B. Jacobs is an urban designer, renowned for his publications and research on urban design. His well-known paper "Towards an Urban Design Manifesto", written with Donald Appleyard, describes how cities should be laid out....
- Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning and Urban Design - Ken JowittKen JowittKenneth "Ken" Jowitt is an American political scientist. He is currently the Pres and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, positions he has held since 2001 and 1995...
- Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Robson Professor of Political Science - David L. KirpDavid L. KirpDavid L. Kirp, is a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, former member of the Barack Obama Presidential Transition Team and author. His research has explored a wide range of social policy domains, including primary and higher education, race...
- Professor of Public Policy - Trinh T. Minh-haTrinh T. Minh-haTrinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer, academic and composer. She is a world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist, post-colonial theorist. She teaches courses that focus on women's work as related to cultural politics, post-coloniality, contemporary critical theory and the arts...
- Professor of Rhetoric and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies - Malcolm PottsMalcolm PottsDavid Malcolm Potts is a human reproductive scientist. Since 1993, he has been the first holder of the Fred H. Bixby-endowed chair in Population and Family Planning in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley....
- Professor of Public Health - Robert ReichRobert ReichRobert Bernard Reich is an American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997....
- Professor of Public Policy and former U.S. Secretary of Labor - AnnaLee SaxenianAnnaLee SaxenianAnnaLee Saxenian is a professor and the current Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Information, known widely for her work on technology clusters and social networks in Silicon Valley....
(M.C.P. 1980) - Professor, School of Information, and Professor of City and Regional Planning - Dan Schnur - Lecturer of Political Science
- Kenneth WaltzKenneth WaltzKenneth Neal Waltz is a member of the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars of international relations alive today...
- Professor Emeritus of Political Science, and one of the founders of neorealism, or structural realism - Steven WeberSteven Weber (professor)Steven Weber is a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley and the Director of the Institute of International Studies. He is also the editor of Globalization and the European Political Economy . He holds both an M.D...
- Professor of Political Science - John ZysmanJohn ZysmanJohn Zysman is a professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley and co-founder of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. Professor Zysman received his B.A at Harvard and his Ph.D. at MIT...
- Professor of Political Science
Psychology
- Erik EriksonErik EriksonErik Erikson was a Danish-German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase identity crisis. His son, Kai T...
- Professor of Psychology (1942–1950) - Susan Ervin-Tripp - Professor Emeritus of Psychology
- Alison GopnikAlison GopnikAlison Gopnik , daughter of Myrna Gopnik, is an American Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her work in the areas of cognitive and language development, specializing in causal learning and theory of mind...
- Professor of Psychology - Dacher KeltnerDacher KeltnerDacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at University of California, Berkeley as well as the Director for Greater Good Science Center, formerly known as the Center for the Development of Peace and Well-Being. Professor Keltner received his B.A. in Theatre Studies from the University of...
- Professor of Psychology - Eleanor RoschEleanor RoschEleanor Rosch is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in cognitive psychology and primarily known for her work on categorization, in particular her prototype theory, which has profoundly influenced the field of cognitive psychology...
- Professor of Psychology - Dan SlobinDan SlobinDaniel Isaac Slobin is a Professor Emeritus of psychology and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Slobin has made major contributions to the study of children's language acquisition, and his work has demonstrated the importance of cross-linguistic comparison for the study of...
- Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Sociology
- Robert Bellah - Professor Emeritus of Sociology, author of numerous works including Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, recipient of the National Humanities Medal
- Reinhard BendixReinhard BendixReinhard Bendix was a German American sociologist.Born in Berlin, Germany, he briefly belonged to Neu beginnen and Hashomer Hatzair, groups that resisted the Nazis. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States. He received his B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and subsequently...
- Professor of Sociology (1947–1991) - Michael BurawoyMichael BurawoyMichael Burawoy is a British, sociological Marxist, best known as author of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalisma study on work and organizations that has been translated into a number of languagesand as the leading proponent of public sociology...
- Professor of Sociology - Manuel CastellsManuel CastellsManuel Castells is a sociologist especially associated with information society and communication research....
- Professor of Sociology and City and Regional Planning - Harry Edwards - Professor Emeritus of Sociology
- Claude Fischer - Professor of Sociology
- Claude S. FischerClaude S. FischerClaude Serge Fischer is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in urban sociology, research methods, and American society at UC Berkeley.- Early life and career :Fischer was born in Paris,...
- Professor of Sociology - Erving GoffmanErving GoffmanErving Goffman was a Canadian-born sociologist and writer.The 73rd president of American Sociological Association, Goffman's greatest contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction in the form of dramaturgical perspective that began with his 1959 book The Presentation of Self...
- Professor of Sociology (1958–1968) - John LieJohn LieJohn Lie is Class of 1959 Professor of sociology and Dean of International and Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His principal academic interests are social theory, political economy, social identity, and East Asia....
- Professor of Sociology - Leo LöwenthalLeo LöwenthalLeo Löwenthal was a German-Jewish sociologist usually associated with the Frankfurt School.-Life:Born in Frankfurt as the son of assimilated Jews , Löwenthal came of age during the turbulent early years of the Weimar Republic...
- Member of the Frankfurt School for Social Research, along with Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno; Professor of Sociology (1956–1992) - Kristin LukerKristin LukerKristin Luker is Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley...
(B.A. 1968) - Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology - John Levi MartinJohn Levi MartinJohn Levi Martin is an American sociologist. He is currently professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.He is the author of Social Structures and DAMN and ELLA ....
(M.A. 1990, Ph.D. 1997) - Professor of Sociology - Neil SmelserNeil SmelserNeil Joseph Smelser is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an active researcher from 1958 to 1994. His research has been on collective behavior....
- Professor Emeritus of Sociology - Barrie ThorneBarrie ThorneBarrie Thorne is a Professor of Sociology and of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.Her work focuses on the sociology of gender, feminist theory, the sociology of age relations, childhood, and families, and ethnographic methods...
- Professor of Sociology and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies - Kim VossKim VossKim Voss is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley whose main field of research is social movements and the American labor movement.-Education and career:...
- Professor of Sociology and current Chair of Sociology - Loïc WacquantLoïc WacquantLoïc Wacquant is a sociologist, specializing in urban sociology, urban poverty, racial inequality, the body, social theory and ethnography....
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