Robert Birgeneau
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| Born | Toronto, Ontario |
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| Residence |  Canada,
 UK |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Institution | Yale Oxford Bell Labs MIT Toronto Berkeley |
| Alma Mater | Toronto Yale |
| Notable Prizes | Founders Award of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) |
Robert Joseph Birgeneau, a Canadian physicist, is the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, having assumed this position on September 22, 2004. He was the fourteenth president of the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2004. He left the University of Toronto before the end of his seven-year term, causing a flurry of controversy with his abrupt departure [1].
The first from his family to finish high school, Birgeneau graduated from St. Michael's College School in Toronto. He received a B.Sc in mathematics in 1963 from the University of Toronto, where he also met his wife Mary Catherine; they have four children. Birgeneau received his Ph.D in physics from Yale University in 1966.
He spent a year each on the faculties of Yale and Oxford University. From 1968 to 1975, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He then joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a professor of physics. During his 25 years at MIT, he served as chair of the physics department and then as dean of science.
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| Preceded by: Robert M. Berdahl |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley 2004–Present |
Succeeded by: Incumbent |
| Preceded by: Robert Prichard |
President of the University of Toronto 2000–2004 |
Succeeded by: Frank Iacobucci |
