Berkeley College of Chemistry
The
College of Chemistry is one of 14 schools and colleges at the
University of California, Berkeley. It houses the departments of
chemistry and
chemical engineering and occupies six buildings flanking central plaza. The
National Research Council has ranked its chemistry and chemical engineering doctoral programs first and third in the U.S., respectively.
As of 2003-2004, it has 632 undergraduates, 555 graduates, and 180 postdocs.
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.
List of noted faculty
- Melvin Calvin - 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)
- Joel Hildebrand - 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)
- Glenn T. Seaborg (Ph.D. 1937) - Professor, Nobel laureate (1951)
List of noted alumni
- Harold C. Urey (Ph.D. 1923) - Nobel laureate (1934)
- Henry Taube (B.S. 1935, Ph.D. 1940) - Nobel laureate (1983)
- Robert F. Curl, Jr (Ph.D. 1957) - Nobel laureate (1996)
- Mario Molina (Ph.D. 1972) - Nobel laureate (1995)
- Ahmed Zewail (Postdoc. 1974) - Nobel laureate (1999)
- Thomas Cech (Ph.D. 1975) - Nobel laureate (1989)
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