University of California, Berkeley College of Chemistry

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 2010-2011, 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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Current faculty[8]

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ [1]
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  3. ^ [3]
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  5. ^ [5]
  6. ^ [http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/new-elements-here.html
  7. ^ [6]
  8. ^ UC Berkeley College of Chemistry Faculty
  9. ^ Alivisatos Group Page
  10. ^ Arnold Group Page
  11. ^ Bergman Group Page
  12. ^ Bertozzi Group Page
  13. ^ Boering Group Page
  14. ^ Bustamante Group Page
  15. ^ Cate Group Page
  16. ^ Chandler Group Page
  17. ^ C. Chang Group Page
  18. ^ M. Chang Group Page
  19. ^ Cohen Group Page
  20. ^ Cuk Group Page
  21. ^ Doudna Group Page
  22. ^ Fischer Group Page
  23. ^ Fleming Group Page
  24. ^ Francis Group Page
  25. ^ Fréchet Group Page
  26. ^ Geissler Group Page
  27. ^ Ginsberg Group Page
  28. ^ Groves Group Page
  29. ^ Hammond Group Page
  30. ^ C.B. Harris Group Page
  31. ^ Hartwig Group Page
  32. ^ Head-Gordon Group Page
  33. ^ Kim Group Page
  34. ^ Klinman Group Page
  35. ^ Krantz Group Page
  36. ^ Kuriyan Group Page
  37. ^ Leone Group Page
  38. ^ Lester Group Page
  39. ^ Long Group Page
  40. ^ Majda Group Page
  41. ^ Marletta Group Page
  42. ^ Mathies Group Page
  43. ^ W.H. Miller Group Page
  44. ^ Neumark Group Page
  45. ^ Pines Group Page
  46. ^ Raymond Group Page
  47. ^ Sarpong Group Page
  48. ^ Saykally Group Page
  49. ^ Shokat Group Page
  50. ^ Smit Group Page
  51. ^ Somorjai Group Page
  52. ^ Stacy Group Page
  53. ^ Tilley Group Page
  54. ^ Tinoco Group Page
  55. ^ Toste Group Page
  56. ^ Vollhardt Group Page
  57. ^ Wemmer Group Page
  58. ^ Whaley Group Page
  59. ^ Williams Group Page
  60. ^ T. Xu Group Page
  61. ^ P. Yang Group Page

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