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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 United States 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.
1 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)
- Kenneth Pitzer (Ph.D. 1937) - Dean (1951-60), Professor, President of Rice University and Stanford University.
- Glenn T. SeaborgGlenn Theodore Seaborg ( April 19, 1912 February 25, 1999) was an American atomic scientist. He was one of the first scientists to produce a transuranium element. Of Swedish ancestry, Seaborg was born in Ishpeming, Michigan, grew up in South Gate, Califor (Ph.D. 1937) - Professor, Nobel laureate (1951)
2 List of noted alumni
- Harold C. UreyHarold Clayton Urey ( April 29, 1893 January 5, 1981) was a chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 and later led him to theories of planetary evolution. Urey was born in Walkerton, Indiana. After briefly (Ph.D. 1923 Chemistry) - Nobel laureate (1934)
- Henry TaubeHenry Taube (born 1915) is a U. Canadian-born) chemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1983 for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions. Taube, Henry Taube, Henry. (B.S. 1935, Ph.D. 1940 Chemistry) - Nobel laureate (1983)
- Gordon MooreGordon E. Moore (born January 3, 1929) is co-founder of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's law. Moore was born in San Francisco, California. He received a B. degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 and a Ph. in Che (B.S. 1950 Chemistry) - cofounder of IntelThe following article is about the multinational corporation; intel is also an abbreviation for intelligence, used in reference to military intelligence and espionage. Intel Corporation is a US-based multinational corporation that is best known for design
- Andrew GroveAndrew Steven Grove (born September 2, 1936) is co-founder and chairman of Intel Corporation. Grove was born "Grof Andras" in Budapest, Hungary (note: in Hungary, the family name comes first), and growing up he was known to friends as "Andris". He earned (Ph.D. 1963 Chemical Engineering) - cofounder of IntelThe following article is about the multinational corporation; intel is also an abbreviation for intelligence, used in reference to military intelligence and espionage. Intel Corporation is a US-based multinational corporation that is best known for design
- Robert F. Curl, Jr. (Ph.D. 1957 Chemistry) - Nobel laureate (1996)
- 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)
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