list of uc berkeley faculty

This page lists noted 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 parenthesis.

George A. Akerlof - Nobel laureate (2001, economics), Professor of Economics
Luis W. Alvarez - Nobel laureate (1968, physics), Professor of Physics
Walter Alvarez - Professor of Geology
Richard Borcherds - Fields medallist (1998), Professor of Mathematics
Judith Butler - Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature
Melvin Calvin - Nobel laureate (1961, chemistry), University Professor of Chemistry, discovered Calvin Cycle
Owen Chamberlain - Nobel laureate (1959, physics), Professor of Physics
S. S. Chern - leading differential geometer, Professor of Mathematics
Robert E. Connick (Ph.D. 1942) - professor of chemistry, dean of college of chemistry, vice-chancellor
Donald Davidson - philosopher, Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy
Gerard Debreu - Nobel laureate (1983, economics), Professor of Economics and of Mathematics
J. Bradford DeLong - Professor of economics
Hubert Dreyfus - Professor of philosophy
Paul Feyerabend - philosopher of science
William F. Giauque (B.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1922) - Nobel laureate (1949, Chemistry)
Donald A. Glaser - Nobel laureate (1950, physics), Professor of Molecular Biology and of Physics
Erich S. Gruen - Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics
John C. Harsanyi - Nobel laureate (1994, economics)
Robert Hass - U.S. Poet Laureate, Professor of English
Vaughan Jones - Fields medallist (1990), Professor of Mathematics
Theodore Kaczynski - the Unabomber, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
William Kahan - recipient of the 1989 Turing Award
Richard Karp - recipient of the 1985 Turing Award
Clark Kerr (Ph.D. 1939) - Professor of Industrial Relations, Chancellor (1952-58), UC President (1958-67)
Maxine Hong Kingston (B.A. 1962) - author, Senior Lecturer
Alfred Kroeber - Professor of Anthropology
Thomas Kuhn - historian/philosopher of science
George Lakoff - Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Ernest O. Lawrence - Nobel laureate (1939, physics)
G.N. Lewis - Dean of the College of Chemistry, professor of physical chemistry
Yuan T. Lee (Ph.D. 1962) - Nobel laureate (1986, Chemistry), Professor of Chemistry, Principal Investigator, Materials and Molecular Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Willard Libby (B.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1930) - Professor of Chemistry, Nobel laureate (1960, Chemistry)
T. Y. Lin (M.S. 1933) - Professor of Civil Engineering, bridgebuilder
Bernard Maybeck - drawing instructor (1894), Professor of Architecture (1898-1903)
Edwin M. McMillan - Nobel laureate (1951, chemistry), Professor of Physics, Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Daniel L. McFadden - Nobel laureate (2000, economics)
Czeslaw Milosz - Nobel laureate (1980, literature), Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Emeritus
Richard A. Muller - Professor of Physics, MacArthur Genius Award winner
John H. Northrop - Nobel laureate (1946, chemistry)
Robert Oppenheimer - Professor of Physics, scientific head of the Manhattan Project
Andreas Papandreou - Professor and Chair of Economics, Prime Minister of Greece
David A. Patterson - Professor of Computer Science, pioneer of RISC computer design
Kenneth Pitzer (Ph.D. 1937) - Dean of the College of Chemistry (1951-60), Professor of Chemistry, President of Rice University and Stanford University
Ken Ribet - Professor of Mathematics, contributor to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Dana Scott (B.S. 1954) - computer scientist, recipient of the 1976 Turing Award, Associate Professor of Math
Glenn T. Seaborg (Ph.D. 1937) - Nobel laureate (1951, Chemistry), University Professor of Chemistry, Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Chancellor, Berkeley campus (1958-1961)
John Searle - Professor of Philosophy
Emilio G. Segr - Nobel laureate (1959, physics), Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Julian Schwinger - theoretical physicist, National Research fellow
Wendell M. Stanley - Nobel laureate (1946, chemistry)
Edward Teller - "father" of the Hydrogen bomb, Professor of Physics
Chang-Lin Tien - University Professor (UC system), NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Chancellor of Berkeley campus (1990-1997)
Charles H. Townes - Nobel laureate (1964, physics), University Professor of Physics
Ulrich Walter - German astronaut, now professor at the Technische Universität München
Charles W. Woodworth - (1891-1930) Founder of the UCB Division of Entomology, PBESA gives the C. W. Woodworth Award

List Of Uc Berkeley Faculty

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