University of California, Berkeley College of Chemistry
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Coordinates: 37°52′22.16″N 122°15′22.04″W / 37.8728222°N 122.2561222°W
| University of California, Berkeley College of Chemistry | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1872 |
| Type | Public Professional School |
| Location | Berkeley, California, USA |
| Website | http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/ |
The UC Berkeley College of Chemistry is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. It houses the departments of chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering and occupies six buildings flanking central plaza. US News and World Report has ranked its chemistry and chemical engineering programs first and second in the U.S., respectively. Its faculty and graduates have won numerous awards, including the Wolf Prize, the National Medal of Science, the National Medal of Technology, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, as well as thirteen Nobel Prizes.[1] As of 2010[update]-2011, it has 771 undergraduates, 481 graduates, and 303 postdoctoral fellows.[2]
The Department of Chemistry is one of the largest and most productive in the world, graduating about 80 doctoral students per year[3] while maintaining the world's highest citation-per-faculty score.[4] It hosts 6 of the top 100 chemists worldwide by citation impact for 2000–2010, tied with MIT for the most of any instutition.[5] Scientists affiliated with the department and the nearby Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are responsible for the discovery of sixteen elements, including Berkelium, named after the city, and Seaborgium, named after Nobel laureate and former department chair Glenn Seaborg.[6]
First established in 1872, the college awarded its first Ph.D. in 1885 to John Stillman, who later founded the Chemistry Department at Stanford University. A Division of Chemical Engineering was established in 1946, becoming a department in 1957. The Department of Chemical Engineering changed its name to Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2010 to reflect the research focus of its faculty in the 21st century.[7]
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[edit] Current faculty[8]
- Paul Alivisatos, Materials and Solid State Chemistry; Physical Chemistry[9]
- Richard (Dick) Andersen, Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
- John Arnold, Organometallic, Polymers and Materials Chemistry; Catalysis[10]
- Anne M. Baranger, Chemical Biology; Organic Chemistry; Chemical Education
- Robert G. Bergman, Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry; Organic Chemistry[11]
- Carolyn Bertozzi, Bio-organic Chemistry; Organic Chemistry[12]
- Kristie A. Boering, Environmental Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Atmospheric Chemistry[13]
- Carlos Bustamante, Biophysical Chemistry[14]
- Jamie Cate, Structural Biology and Biophysical Chemistry[15]
- Joseph Cerny, Nuclear Chemistry
- David Chandler, Theoretical Chemistry[16]
- Christopher Chang, Chemical Biology and Organic Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry[17]
- Michelle Chang, Biochemistry, Chemical Biology, and Synthetic Biology[18]
- Ronald Cohen, Environmental Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Atmospheric Chemistry[19]
- Tanja Cuk, Physical Chemistry, Inorganic and Materials Chemistry, Solar Energy Conversion[20]
- Jennifer Doudna, Chemical Biology[21]
- Felix Fischer, Organic and Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Molecular Electronics[22]
- Graham Fleming, Biophysical Chemistry; Molecular Structure and Dynamics Chemistry; Physical Chemistry[23]
- Matthew Francis, Organic, Bioorganic, and Materials Chemistry[24]
- Jean Fréchet, Organic, polymer, materials and medicinal chemistry[25]
- Phillip Geissler, Theoretical Chemistry[26]
- Naomi Ginsberg, Physical and biophysical chemistry; light harvesting, spectroscopy, and imaging[27]
- Jay Groves, Physical chemistry in living systems[28]
- Ming Hammond, Chemical Biology, Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics[29]
- Charles B. Harris, Materials and Solid State Chemistry; Chemical Dynamics; Physical Chemistry[30]
- Robert Harris, Theoretical Chemistry
- John Hartwig, Organic, Organometallic, and Inorganic Chemistry[31]
- Martin Head-Gordon, Theoretical Chemistry[32]
- Darleane C. Hoffman, Nuclear Chemistry
- Sung-Hou Kim, Biophysical Chemistry, Structural and Computational Genomics[33]
- Judith Klinman, Bio-organic Chemistry; Biophysical Chemistry[34]
- Bryan Krantz, Biophysical chemistry of membrane proteins[35]
- John Kuriyan, Structural Biology of DNA Replication and Cellular Signal Transduction[36]
- Stephen Leone, Physical Chemistry, Chemical Dynamics and Nanostructured Materials[37]
- William Lester, Theoretical and Physical Chemistry[38]
- Jeffrey Long, Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry; Materials and Solid State Chemistry[39]
- Marcin Majda, Bioanalytical Chemistry and Electrochemistry[40]
- Michael Marletta, Biological and Bio-organic Chemistry[41]
- Richard Mathies, Biophysical, Bioanalytical and Physical Chemistry[42]
- William H. Miller, Theoretical Chemistry[43]
- Luciano Moretto, Nuclear Chemistry
- Daniel Neumark, Physical Chemistry, Molecular Structure and Dynamics[44]
- Heino Nitsche, Nuclear Chemistry; Nuclear Environmental Chemistry
- Alexander Pines, NMR and MRI; Materials Science; Biophysical Chemistry[45]
- Ken Raymond, Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry; Biophysical Chemistry; Supramolecular Chemistry [46]
- Richmond Sarpong, Organic and organometallic chemistry[47]
- Dave Savage, Biophysics, Synthetic Biology, and Systems Biology
- Richard J. Saykally, Physical Chemistry; Analytical chemistry; Surface Science; Materials and Solid State Chemistry[48]
- Charles Shank, Physical chemistry
- Kevan Shokat, Bio-organic Chemistry[49]
- Berend Smit, Molecular simulations, multi-scale modeling, catalysts, soft-condensed matter, biological membranes, clays[50]
- Gabor A. Somorjai, Physical Chemistry; Solid State Chemistry; Surface Science; Catalysis[51]
- Angelica Stacy, Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry; Materials and Solid State Chemistry[52]
- Herbert Strauss, Physical Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Solid State, Biophysical, Theoretical Vibrational Spectroscopy
- T. Don Tilley, Organometallic, Polymer and Materials Chemistry; Catalysis[53]
- Ignacio Tinoco, Jr., Biophysical Chemistry[54]
- F. Dean Toste, Organic and Organometallic Chemistry[55]
- K. Peter C. Vollhardt, Organic Chemistry[56]
- David Wemmer, Biophysical Chemistry[57]
- K. Birgitta Whaley, Theoretical Chemistry[58]
- Evan Williams, Analytical Chemistry; Biophysical Chemistry; and Molecular Structure and Dynamics Chemistry; Mass Spectrometry[59]
- Ting Xu, Polymers, Biomaterials, Materials Chemistry[60]
- Peidong Yang, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic chemistry[61]
[edit] Notable faculty
- Neil Bartlett - Professor (1969)
- Melvin Calvin (B.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1935) - Professor, Nobel laureate (1961)
- Robert E. Connick (Ph.D. 1942) - Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Dean
- William F. Giauque (B.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1922) - Professor, Nobel laureate (1949)
- Dudley R. Herschbach - Assistant Professor, Nobel laureate (1986)
- Joel Henry Hildebrand (Ph.D. 1906) - Dean (1949–1951), Chairman of the Dept. of Chemistry (1941–1943), Professor
- Yuan T. Lee (Ph.D. 1965) - Professor, Nobel laureate (1986)
- Gilbert Newton Lewis - Dean (1912–1941), Professor
- Willard F. Libby (B.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1933) - Professor, Nobel laureate (1960)
- Kenneth Pitzer (Ph.D. 1937) - Dean (1951–60), Professor, President of Rice University and Stanford University.
- Glenn T. Seaborg (Ph.D. 1937) - Professor, Nobel laureate (1951)
- Andrew Streitwieser - Professor
- Roger Y. Tsien - Professor (1982–1989), Nobel laureate (2008)
[edit] Notable alumni
- Harold C. Urey (Ph.D. 1923 Chemistry) - Nobel laureate (1934)
- Henry Eyring - (Ph.D. 1927 Chemistry) - National Medal of Science (1966)
- Willis Lamb (B.S. 1934 Chemistry) - Nobel laureate in Physics (1955)
- Henry Taube (Ph.D. 1940 Chemistry) - Nobel laureate (1983)
- Gordon Moore (B.S. 1950 Chemistry) - cofounder of Intel
- Robert F. Curl, Jr. (Ph.D. 1957 Chemistry) - Nobel laureate (1996)
- Andrew Grove (Ph.D. 1963 Chemical Engineering) - cofounder of Intel
- Mario Molina (Ph.D. 1972 Chemistry) - Nobel laureate (1995)
- Ahmed Zewail (Postdoc. 1974 Chemistry) - Nobel laureate (1999)
- Thomas Cech (Ph.D. 1975 Chemistry) - Nobel laureate (1989)
- Susan Solomon (Ph.D. 1981 Atmospheric Chemistry) - Nobel Peace Prize (2007), National Medal of Science (1999)
[edit] References
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- ^ UC Berkeley College of Chemistry Faculty
- ^ Alivisatos Group Page
- ^ Arnold Group Page
- ^ Bergman Group Page
- ^ Bertozzi Group Page
- ^ Boering Group Page
- ^ Bustamante Group Page
- ^ Cate Group Page
- ^ Chandler Group Page
- ^ C. Chang Group Page
- ^ M. Chang Group Page
- ^ Cohen Group Page
- ^ Cuk Group Page
- ^ Doudna Group Page
- ^ Fischer Group Page
- ^ Fleming Group Page
- ^ Francis Group Page
- ^ Fréchet Group Page
- ^ Geissler Group Page
- ^ Ginsberg Group Page
- ^ Groves Group Page
- ^ Hammond Group Page
- ^ C.B. Harris Group Page
- ^ Hartwig Group Page
- ^ Head-Gordon Group Page
- ^ Kim Group Page
- ^ Klinman Group Page
- ^ Krantz Group Page
- ^ Kuriyan Group Page
- ^ Leone Group Page
- ^ Lester Group Page
- ^ Long Group Page
- ^ Majda Group Page
- ^ Marletta Group Page
- ^ Mathies Group Page
- ^ W.H. Miller Group Page
- ^ Neumark Group Page
- ^ Pines Group Page
- ^ Raymond Group Page
- ^ Sarpong Group Page
- ^ Saykally Group Page
- ^ Shokat Group Page
- ^ Smit Group Page
- ^ Somorjai Group Page
- ^ Stacy Group Page
- ^ Tilley Group Page
- ^ Tinoco Group Page
- ^ Toste Group Page
- ^ Vollhardt Group Page
- ^ Wemmer Group Page
- ^ Whaley Group Page
- ^ Williams Group Page
- ^ T. Xu Group Page
- ^ P. Yang Group Page
