University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (also UCB, Cal, Berkeley, or UC Berkeley) is a public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California on the eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate. It is the oldest campus of the University of California.

Table of contents

1 History 2 Campus architecture and architects 3 Academics 4 Organization 4.1 Colleges and schools 5 Contributions to Computer Science 6 Sports and traditions 7 Noted Cal alumni 7.2 Nobel laureates 7.3 Academia 7.4 Arts and media 7.5 Business 7.6 Politics and government 7.7 Law 7.8 Turing Award laureates 7.9 Technology 7.10 Athletics 7.11 One of a kind 8 Noted Cal faculty 9 Noted Cal students 10 External links

History

In 1866, the land which is now the Berkeley campus was first purchased by the private College of California (established by Congregational minister Henry Durant in 1855). However, lacking the funds to operate, the College of California merged with state-run Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College, forming the University of California on March 23, 1868, with Durant becoming the first president. The university first opened in Oakland in 1869. In 1873, with the completion of North and South Halls, the university relocated to the Berkeley campus with 167 men and 222 women students enrolled. Through the middle decades of the 20th century, the Berkeley campus enjoyed a golden age in the physical, chemical and biological sciences. During that period, with Professor Ernest O. Lawrence's invention of the cyclotron, researchers affiliated with the campus discovered a great number of chemical elements heavier than uranium, the only ones known at that time, garnering a number of Nobel Prizes for these efforts along the way. Two of the elements, Berkelium and Californium, were named in honor of the university. Another two, Lawrencium and Seaborgium, were named in honor of faculty members Ernest O. Lawrence and Glenn T. Seaborg. During World War II, Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory in the hills above Berkeley began to contract with the U.S. Army in efforts to help understand the fundamental science needed to develop the atomic bomb (including the then-secret discovery of plutonium by Seaborg). Physics professor J. Robert Oppenheimer was named scientific head of the Manhattan Project in 1942. The University agreed to manage the project (without knowing its purpose) the same year, a relationship which has endured to the present (though not without its strains). During the McCarthy era in 1949, the Board of Regents adopted an anti-communist loyalty oath to be signed by all University of California employees. A number of faculty members firmly took a stand against the oath requirement and were eventually dismissed. They were reinstated with full honor and back-pay ten years later; one of them, Edward C. Tolman -- the noted comparative psychologist -- now has a building on the campus named after him (it houses the departments of psychology and education). The loyalty oath is still required for all employees of the University today, however. The University gained notoriety worldwide nearly a century after its founding for the student body's active protests against United States involvement in the Vietnam War. This period of social unrest on campus could be traced to the Free Speech Movement, which originated on the Berkeley campus in 1964 and inspired the political and moral outlook of a generation.

Campus architecture and architects

\n The campus is 1,232 acres (5 km²) in its entirety, though the main campus is on the western 178 acres (0.7 km²). Despite its urban setting, the campus manages to maintain a surprisingly park-like atmosphere, crossed by two creeks and including the tallest stand of hardwood trees in North America. Overlooking the main campus on the east side are several research units, most notably the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and the Lawrence Hall of Science. Much of the rugged upper hill territory is still undeveloped. Residential Halls and administrative buildings spill out into the city of Berkeley, particularly to the south of the campus. The campus and its surrounding community are home to a number of notable buildings by turn-of-the-20th century campus architect John Galen Howard, his peer Bernard Maybeck (best known for the Palace of Fine Arts), and Maybeck's student, Julia Morgan. Later buildings were designed by prominent architects such as Charles Willard Moore (Haas School of Business) and Joseph Esherick (Wurster Hall). Very little of the early University of California (c. 1868-1903) remains, with the Victorian Second Empire style South Hall (1873) and Piedmont Avenue (designed by Frederick Law Olmsted) being notable exceptions. What is considered the historic campus today was the eventual result of the 1898 "International Competition for the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Plan for the University of California," funded by the mother of William Randolph Hearst and initially held in the Dutch city of Antwerp (eleven finalists were judged again in San Francisco, 1899). This unprecedented competition came about from one-upmanship between the prominent Hearst and Stanford families of the Bay Area. In response to the founding of Stanford University, the Hearst Family decided to "adopt" the fledgling University of California and develop their own world-class institution. Although a Frenchman, Emile Bènard, won the competition, he disliked the "uncultured" San Francisco atmosphere and resigned to be replaced by the fourth place winner and the first campus architect, John Galen Howard. Only University House, designed by architect Albert Pissis and then home to the President of the University of California, was placed according to the Bènard plan. (It is today the home of UC Berkeley's Chancellor.) marks the original southern entrance to the campus, and now the entrance to Sproul Plaza]] Much of the older campus is built in the stately Beaux-Arts Classical style, which was regarded as the most cultured, beautiful, and "scientific" style by the cultural establishment at the time of the competition, and thus was the style preferred by John Galen Howard and Phoebe Hearst (who paid his salary). With the support of University President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Howard designed over twenty buildings, which set the tone for campus up until it post-World War II expansion in the 1950s and 60s. These included the Greek Theatre, the Hearst Memorial Mining Building, Doe Library, California Hall, Wheeler Hall, (Old) Le Conte Hall, Gilman Hall, Haviland Hall, Wellman Hall, Sather Gate, and the 307-foot Sather Tower (nicknamed "the Campanile" after St. Mark's Campanile in Venice). Buildings he regarded as temporary, non-academic, or not particularly "serious" were designed in shingle or Collegiate Gothic styles; North Gate Hall, Dwinelle Annex, and the Men's Faculty Club (later added to by Maybeck), and Stephens Hall are examples of the former and latter, respectively. Many of his best buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places. John Galen Howard retired in 1924, his support base gone with both Phoebe Hearst's death and President Wheeler's resignation in 1919. William Randolph Hearst, seeking to memorialize his mother, contributed to Howard's resignation by commissioning Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan to design a series of dramatic buildings on the southern part of the campus. These were originally to include a huge domed auditorium, a museum, an art school, and a women's gymnasium, all arranged on an eastward esplanade and classically oriented towards the campanile. However, only the Hearst Women's Gymnasium was completed before the Great Depression, at which point Hearst decided to focus on his estate at San Simeon instead. on the right. South Hall is the brick building in the center.]] The dramatic increase in enrollment during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s led to the rapid expansion of the campus, beginning with the University's appropriation of the north end of Telegraph Avenue to form Sproul Plaza and headed on its east side by Sproul Hall, a new neoclassical building for the campus administration. However, the administration moved out of Sproul and into California Hall, situated in the heart of campus, after students barricaded themselves in Sproul during the 1964 Free Speech Movement. (Today, Sproul Hall is houses Student Services and the Admissions Office, and Sproul Plaza is the center of student activities.) A series of huge Brutalist concrete buildings were also built to provide much-needed housing, lab, office, and classroom space, including Evans Hall, Cory Hall, Wurster Hall, Davis Hall, McCone Hall, Zellerbach Hall, Units 1, 2, and 3, and others. Gray-green Evans Hall is the tallest instructional building on the campus and houses the offices of faculty in mathematics, statistics, and economics, including former Assistant Professor of Mathematics Ted Kaczynski—famously known as the Unabomber. Along with Wurster Hall, Evans Hall is widely considered to be one of the ugliest buildings on campus. A student committed suicide from Evans Hall by jumping from an open tenth-floor balcony in 2002; following this event, glass panels were installed on the balconies of both Evans and Wurster Halls. (The most recent campus plan suggests the demolition of Evans Hall within the next ten years.) Cory Hall, the electrical engineering building, was the site of two attacks by the Unabomber in 1982 and 1985. Its neighbor Soda Hall (computer science), is the only classroom building on campus with showers. It was completed in August 1994, at the cost of $35.5 million, raised entirely from private gifts. Recent developments include the new Jean Hargrove Music Library and the completion of funding for the planned Chang-Lin Tien Center, which will be the fourth free-standing music library and the first free-standing building devoted to East Asian Studies, respectively, in the United States.

Academics

\n Berkeley has graduated more students who would go on to earn doctorates than any other university in the country. Its enrollment of National Merit Scholars is third in the nation. According to the National Research Council, Berkeley ranks first nationally in the number of graduate programs in the top 10 in their fields (97 percent) and first nationally in the number of "distinguished" programs for the scholarship of the faculty (32 programs). With more than 7,000 courses in nearly 300 degree programs, the university about 5,500 bachelor's degrees, 2,000 master's degrees, 900 doctorates and 200 law degrees each year. The University currently boasts 223 American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellows, 3 Fields Medal holders, 83 Fulbright Scholars, 139 Guggenheim Fellows, 8 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators, 15 MacArthur Fellows, 83 members of the National Academy of Engineering, 125 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 8 Nobel Prize winners, 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, 70 Sloan Fellows, and 7 Wolf Prize winners among a bevy of distinguished faculty. With about 9.2 million volumes held in 18 campus libraries, UC Berkeley library holdings rank fourth in North America, after the Library of Congress, Harvard University, and Yale University.

Organization

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Chancellors

The position of Chancellor was created in 1952 during the reorganization and expansion of the University of California; there have since been nine chancellors, with Chancellor Berdahl set to retire in 2004:

1. Clark Kerr (1952-1958)\n# Glenn T. Seaborg (1958-1961)\n# Edward W. Strong (1961-1965)\n# Martin E. Meyerson (1965, acting)\n# Roger W. Heyns (1965-1971)\n# Albert H. Bowker (1971-1980)\n# Ira Michael Heyman (1980-1990)\n# Chang-Lin Tien (1990-1997)\n# Robert M. Berdahl (1997-2004)

See also: List of UC Presidents

Colleges and schools

\n\nBerkeley's 130-plus academic departments and programs are organized into 14 colleges and schools. ("Colleges" are both undergraduate and graduate, while "Schools" are graduate-only, the exception being the School of Business.):\n*Haas School of Business\n*College of Chemistry\n*Graduate School of Education\n*College of Engineering\n*College of Environmenal Design\n*School of Information Management\n*Graduate School of Journalism\n*Law School (Boalt Hall)\n*College of Letters and Science\n*College of Natural Resources\n*School of Optometry\n*School of Public Health\n*Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy\n*School of Social Welfare

Contributions to Computer Science

Cal has nurtured a number of key technologies associated with the early development of the Internet and the Open Source Software movement. The original Berkeley Software Distribution, commonly known as BSD Unix, was assembled in 1977 by Bill Joy as a graduate student in the computer science department. PostgreSQL emerged from faculty research begun in the late 1970s. SendMail was developed at Berkeley in 1981. BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain package) was written by a team of graduate students around the same time period. The Tcl programming language and the Tk GUI toolkit were developed by faculty member John Ousterhout in 1988. SPICE and espresso, popular tools for IC Designers, were also invented at Berkeley under the direction of Professor Donald Pederson. Perhaps the most pervasive contribution to computing from UCB has been the algorithms and analysis of floating-point arithmetic, led by Professor William Kahan. These include extensive and ongoing contributions to the IEEE 754 standard. In 1992, Pei-Yuan Wei, an undergraduate, created ViolaWWW, one of the first graphically-based web browsers. ViolaWWW was the first browser to have embedded scriptable objects, stylesheets, and tables. In the spirit of Open Source, he merely donated the code to Sun Microsystems, thus inspiring Java applets. ViolaWWW would also inspire researchers at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications to create the Mosaic web browser. SETI@home was one of the first widely disseminated distributed computing projects, allowing hobbyists and enthusiasts to participate in scientific research by donating unused computer processor cycles in the form of a screen saver. In an interesting example of the confluence of intellectual ideas, many of the arguments for the efficacy of Open Source software development, and of the Wikipedia project itself, find parallels in writings on urban planning and architecture published in the late 1970s by Christopher Alexander, a Berkeley professor of architecture. Across campus around that same time period, John Searle, a Berkeley professor of philosophy, introduced a celebrated critique of artificial intelligence using the metaphor of a Chinese Room. List of research projects conducted at Berkeley:\n* Daedalus project - Combine intelligent adaptive applications with smart networking software that can multiplex connections over a wide variety of different networking technologies.\n* Digital library project\n* GiST - A Generalized Search Tree for Secondary Storage\n* Harmonia research project - open interactive programming tools\n* Sather - Object oriented language derivered from Eiffel programming language\n* Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System - Instructional software for teaching undergraduate, and potentially graduate, level operating systems courses.

Sports and traditions

\n\n. (Note the Stanford visitors section on the left and the Cal alumni section on the right.)]]\nCal's sports teams compete as the California Golden Bears (often referred to as "Cal"). They participate in the NCAA's Division I-A, and in the Pacific Ten Conference. The annual football "Big Game" between the Bears and the rival Stanford Cardinal is the most important game on Cal's schedule. The winner of this game gains custody of the Axe. Cal's independent student-run newspaper is the Daily Californian. Founded in 1871, The Daily Cal became independent in 1971 after the campus administration fired three senior editors for encouraging readers to take back People's Park. The University of California Marching Band has served the university since 1891, and performs at every football game and many other sports games and spirit activities. The university also has a Rally Committee, which is in charge of most aspects of the Cal Spirit. The official school colors, Yale Blue and California Gold, were established in 1874. Yale Blue was chosen because most of the original faculty were Yale University graduates. Gold was selected to represent the Golden State of California. The official mascot is Oski the Bear, who first debuted in 1941. Previously, live bear cubs were used as mascots at Memorial Stadium. It was decided in 1940 that a costumed mascot would be a better alternative to a live bear. Named after the Oski-wow-wow yell, he is cared for by the Oski Committee. The wearer of the costume is kept a secret. It is the tradition to have the basketball player with the largest feet donate his shoes for Oski to wear. The Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) is the student government organization that controls funding for student groups and organizes on-campus student events.

Noted Cal alumni

\n(Alumni who also served as faculty are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parenthesis)

Nobel laureates

\n*Joseph Erlanger, 1895 Nobel laureate (1944, Medicine)\n*Selman Waksman, Ph.D. 1918 - Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine 1952)\n*William F. Giauque (B.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1922) - Nobel laureate (1949, chemistry)\n*Harold Urey, Ph.D. 1923 - Nobel laureate (Chemistry 1934)\n*Otto Stern, L.L.D 1930 - Nobel laureate (Physics 1943) \n*Willard Libby (B.S 1931, Ph.D 1930) - Professor of Chemistry, Nobel laureate (1960, chemistry)\n*Willis Lamb, 1934, Ph.D. 1938 - Nobel laureate (Physics 1955)\n*Glenn T. Seaborg (Ph.D 1937) - nobel laureate (1951, chemistry), University Professor of Chemistry, Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Chancellor, Berkeley campus (1958-1961)\n*Lawrence Klein, 1942 - Nobel laureate (Economics 1980)\n*Douglas North, 1942, Ph.D. 1952- Nobel laureate (Economics 1993)\n*Hamilton Smith, 1952 - Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine 1978)\n*Robert Curl, Ph.D. 1957- Nobel laureate (Chemistry 1996)\n*Alan Heeger, Ph.D. 1961 - Nobel laureate (Chemistry 2000)\n*Yuan T. Lee (Ph.D 1962) - Nobel laureate (1986, chemistry), Professor of Chemistry, Principal Investigator, Materials and Molecular Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory\n*Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. 1961 - Nobel laureate (Economics 2002) \n*Mario Molina, Ph.D. 1972- Nobel laureate (Chemistry 1995)\n*Kary Mullis, Ph.D. 1972 - Nobel laureate (Chemistry 1993)\n*Robert Laughlin, 1972 - Nobel laureate (1998, Physics)\n*Thomas Cech, Ph.D. 1975 - Nobel laureate (Chemistry 1989)\n*Steven Chu, Ph.D. 1976 - Nobel laureate (Physics 1997)

Academia

\n*Josiah Royce, 1875 - philosopher, professor at Harvard University\n*T. Y. Lin (M.S. 1933) - Professor of Civil Engineering, bridgebuilder \n*Kenneth Pitzer (Ph.D. 1937) - Dean of the College of Chemistry (1951-60), Professor of Chemistry, President of Rice University and Stanford University\n*Clark Kerr (Ph.D. 1939) - Professor of Industrial Relations, Chancellor (1952-58), UC President (1958-67)\n*Chien-Shiung Wu, Ph.D 1940 - physicist \n*Robert E. Connick (Ph.D 1942) - professor of chemistry, dean of college of chemistry, vice-chancellor\n*John Bahcall, 1956 - physicist, co-winner of the Fermi award in 2003\n*Maxine Hong Kingston (B.A 1962) - author, Senior Lecturer \n

Arts and media

\n*Julia Morgan, 1894 - architect\n*Jack London, attended 1896-7 - novelist\n*Rube Goldberg, 1904 - cartoonist\n*Irving Stone, 1923 - novelist\n*Robert Penn Warren, 1926 - author, poet\n*Henry Cowell, ?? - composer\n*Ralph Edwards, 1935 - National television star\n*Gregory Peck, 1939 - actor\n*Beverly Cleary, ?? - author\n*Joan Didion, 1956 - author\n*Bill Bixby, 1957 - actor, director\n*Sara Davidson, 1962 - author\n*Stacy Keach, 1963 - actor\n*Mary Pipher, 1969 - author\n*Jerry Mathers, 1974 - actor\n*James Schamus, 1982 - screenwriter, moving producer\n*Scott Adams, MBA 1986 - creator of Dilbert\n*Liz Claman - Anchor, CNBC's Wake Up Call

Business

\n*Dean Witter, 1909 - partner in Morgan Stanley Dean Witter\n*Walter Haas, 1910 - Co-founder of Levi Strauss\n*Don Fischer, 1951 - Founder and Chair, The Gap\n*William Randolph Hearst, Jr, 1959 - newspaper publisher\n*John Schaeffer, 1971 - founder of ecologically-friendly Real Goods solar energy store and the Solar Living Center\n*Brian Maxwell, 1975 - founder of PowerBar \n*Steve Wozniak, 1976 - Co-founder of Apple Computer (graduated 1987)

Politics and government

\n*James H. Budd, 1873 - Governor of California\n*Franklin Lane, 1887 - United States Secretary of the Interior\n*Stephen Mather, 1887 - Director, National Park Service\n*Earl Warren, 1912, J.D 1914 - Governor of California, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States\n*Walter Gordon, 1918, J.D 1922 - Governor of the Virgin Islands, judge, member of National Football Foundation Hall of Fame\n*John Kenneth Galbraith, M.S 1932, Ph.D 1934 - Harvard professor emeritus of economics, ambassador to India\n*Robert McNamara, 1937 - President of World Bank, United States Secretary of Defense, Chair of Ford Motor Company\n*Richard Neustadt, 1939 - political historian and advisor to several U.S. Presidents\n*Dean Rusk, 1940 - United States Secretary of State\n*Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 1950 - President of Pakistan\n*Norman Mineta, 1953 - Congressman, United States Secretary of Commerce, United States Secretary of Transportation\n*Edwin Meese III, J.D 1958 - United States Attorney General\n*Jerry Brown, 1961 - Governor of California, mayor of Oakland, California\n*Ron Dellums, M.S.W 1962 - Congressman\n*Pete Wilson, J.D 1962 - US Senator, Governor of California\n*Robert Matsui, 1963 - Congressman\n*Theodore Olson, J.D 1965 - United States Solicitor General\n*Michael Boskin, 1967, Ph.D 1971 - Chair, Presidential Council of Economic Advisors, professor at Stanford University\n*James Soong, M.A 1967 - Governor of Taiwan Province

Law

\n*Melvin Belli, J.D 1929 - attorney\n*Lance Ito, J.D 1975 - judge, presided over O. J. Simpson trial

Turing Award laureates

\n*Douglas Engelbart, B. of Engineering 1952, Ph.D. 1955 - Inventor of the computer mouse. Recipient of the 1997 Turing Award.\n*Dana Scott (B.S 1954) - computer scientist, recipient of the 1976 Turing Award, Associate Professor of Math\n*Ken Thompson, 1965 BSEE, 1966 MSEE - Co-creator of the Unix operating system and co-recipient of the 1983 Turing Award\n*James Gray, 1966 BSME, 1969 Ph.D - Recipient of the 2001 Turing Award\n*Butler Lampson, Ph.D 1967 - computer scientist, founding member of Xerox PARC, major contributor to the development of the personal computer, and recipient of the 1992 Turing Award \n*Niklaus Wirth, Ph.D 1967 - computer scientist, creator of the Pascal programming language, recipient of the 1984 Turing Award\n*Leonard Adleman, 1968, Ph.D 1976, the "A" in the RSA encryption algorithm for computer security. Co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2002.

Technology

\n*Gordon E. Moore, 1950 - co-founder of Intel and the originator of Moore's Law\n*Jay Miner, 1958 - inventor of the Amiga personal computer\n*Andrew Grove, Ph.D, 1963 - 4th employee of Intel, and eventually its president, CEO, and chairman, and TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1997\n*Allan Alcorn, 1971 - Atari employee #3, electronics designer behind Atari's seminal Pong video arcarde unit, and erstwhile boss of Steve Jobs at Atari\n*Andrew Tanenbaum, Ph.D 197? - computer scientist and creator of Minix, the precursor to Linux\n*Charles Simonyi, 1972 - computer scientist. At Xerox PARC, he created the first WYSIWYG word processor, Bravo, then joined Microsoft to spread the WYSIWYG and computer mouse gospel. Originally from Hungary, he is the "Hungarian" in Hungarian notation, which he created.\n*Lee Felsenstein, 1972 - pioneer in the personal computer industry, founder of Community Memory, designer of the Osborne 1 computer, and influential leading mediator of the Homebrew Computer Club, from which would emerge 23 companies, including Apple Computer\n*Eugene Jarvis, 1976 - Creator of the classic Defender video arcade game

Athletics

\n*Jackie Jensen, 1950 - professional baseball player\n*Joe Kapp, 1959 - professional football player\n*Leigh Steinberg, 1970, J.D 1973 - sports agent\n*Kevin Johnson, 1987 - professional basketball player\n*Mary T. Meagher, 1987 - Olympic swimmer, winner of 3 gold medals\n*Matt Biondi, 1988 - three-time Olympian, winner of 8 gold medals\n*Natalie Coughlin, 2004 - representing the U.S. in the women's 100-meter backstroke at the 2004 Olympics

One of a kind

\n*James Doolittle, 1922 - aviator, United States Army Lt. General\n*Ed Roberts (Independent Living Movement), 1964 - Founder of the Independent Living Movement\n*R.J. Rushdoony, ?? - prominent author of the Christian right\n*Alice Waters, 1967 - chef

Noted Cal faculty

\n(Faculty who were also alumni are listed above in bold.)

• George A. Akerlof - Nobel laureate (2001, economics), Professor of Economics\n*Luis W. Alvarez - Nobel laureate (1968, physics), Professor of Physics\n*Walter Alvarez - Professor of Geology\n*Richard Borcherds - Fields medallist (1990), Professor of Mathematics\n*Melvin Calvin - Nobel laureate (1961, chemistry), University Professor of Chemistry, discovered Calvin Cycle\n*Owen Chamberlain - Nobel laureate (1959, physics), Professor of Physics\n*Donald Davidson - philosopher, Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy\n*Gerard Debreu - Nobel laureate (1983, economics), Professor of Economics and of Mathematics\n*Hubert Dreyfus - Professor of philosophy\n*Donald A. Glaser - Nobel laureate (1950, physics), Professor of Molecular Biology and of Physics\n*Paul Feyerabend - philosopher of science\n*John C. Harsanyi - Nobel laureate (1994, economics)\n*Robert Hass - U.S. Poet Laureate, Professor of English\n*Vaughan Jones - Fields medallist (1990), Professor of Mathematics\n*Theodore Kaczynski - the Unabomber, Assistant Professor of Mathematics\n*William Kahan - recipient of the 1989 Turing Award\n*Richard Karp - recipient of the 1985 Turing Award\n*Alfred Kroeber - Professor of Anthropology\n*Thomas Kuhn - historian/philosopher of science\n*George Lakoff - Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science\n*Ernest O. Lawrence - Nobel laureate (1939, physics)\n*G.N. Lewis - Dean of the College of Chemistry, professor of physical chemistry\n*Bernard Maybeck - drawing instructor (1894), Professor of Architecture (1898-1903)\n*Edwin M. McMillan - Nobel laureate (1951, chemistry), Professor of Physics, Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory\n*Daniel L. McFadden - Nobel laureate (2000, economics)\n*Czeslaw Milosz - Nobel laureate (1980, literature), Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Emeritus\n*John H. Northrop - Nobel laureate (1946, chemistry)\n*Robert Oppenheimer - Professor of Physics, scientific head of the Manhattan Project\n*Andreas Papandreou - Professor and Chair of Economics, Prime Minister of Greece\n*Ken Ribet - Professor of Mathematics, contributor to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem\n*John Searle - Professor of Philosophy\n*Emilio G. Segrè - Nobel laureate (1959, physics), Professor of Physics, Emeritus\n*Julian Schwinger - theoretical physicist, National Research fellow\n*Wendell M. Stanley - Nobel laureate (1946, chemistry)\n*Edward Teller - "father" of the Hydrogen bomb, Professor of Physics\n*Chang-Lin Tien - University Professor (UC system), NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Chancellor of Berkeley campus (1990-1997)\n*Charles H. Townes - Nobel laureate (1964, physics), University Professor of Physics

Noted Cal students

\n*William Hung - Of American Idol Fame\n*Jason Kidd - professional basketball player with the New Jersey Nets\n*Adam Lamberg - star of the Disney Channel show Lizzie McGuire\n*Jonny Moseley - Olympic Gold Medalist\n*Pei-Yuan Wei - early World Wide Web innovator

External links

\n* UC Berkeley website\n* Berkeley in the News\n* Official athletic site\n* ASUC site\n* A. Twu's Tour of UC Berkeley\n* Loafer's guide to the UC Berkeley campus by Carolyn Dougherty\n* Online Exhibit on the Hearst Architectural Competition\n* Berkeley Campus Wiki \n Category:University of California\nCategory:University of California, Berkeley\nCategory:Universities and colleges in California\nCategory:Pac-10