- Orley Ashenfelter
Orley Ashenfelter is a Frisch Medal winning economist who analyzed the results of the Judgment of Paris wine tasting event with Richard E. Quandt. Ashenfelter served as a professor of economics at Princeton University.. He also served as editor of the American Economic Review.
- Leo Breiman
Leo Breiman was a distinguished statistician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, and was a member of the United States National Academy of Science. Breiman's work bridged the gap between statisticians and computer scientists, particularly in the field of machine learning. Perhaps his most important contributions were his work on classification and regression trees and ensembles of trees fit to bootstrap samples.
- Peter Dale Scott
Peter Dale Scott was born in Montreal in 1929. His poetry books are the three volumes of his trilogy Seculum: Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About Terror ; Listening to the Candle: A Poem on Impulse ; and Minding the Darkness: A Poem for the Year 2000 . An anti-war speaker during the Vietnam and U.S.-Iraq wars, he was a co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley and of the Coalition on Political Assassinations.
- Pamela Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management & Systems as well as in the School of Law where she is a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy.
- Bharati Mukherjee
Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940) was born in Calcutta and moved to Britain with family in the year of Independence. She did her graduation from the Universities of Calcutta and Baroda, and later from the University of Iowa after she moved to USA in 1961.
- Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren ( April 24 , 1905 - September 15 , 1989 ) was an American poet and writer. He was born in Guthrie, Kentucky and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1925 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1926. He later attended Yale University and obtained his B. Litt . at Oxford University in England in 1930.
- Ken Jowitt
Ken Jowitt is the Pres and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Jowitt specializes in the study of comparative politics, American foreign policy, and postcommunist countries.
- Manuel Castells
Manuel Castells is University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles.
- Marye Anne Fox
Marye Anne Fox was named the seventh Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry of the University of California, San Diego in April 2004 by the University of California Board of Regents. Previously, Fox was chancellor and distinguished university professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, a post she held since 1998.
- George Lakoff
George Lakoff is Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has served for 36 years. Before that, he taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan. His new book is "The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st Century Politics with an 18th Century Brain."
- Jeffrey Frankel
Jeffrey Frankel is Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He directs the program in International Finance and Macroeconomics at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is also a member of the Business Cycle Dating Committee, which officially declares recessions. Appointed to the Council of Economic Advisers by President Clinton in 1996 and subsequently confirmed by the Senate, he served until 1999.
- Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 - August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist. He was also acknowledged as a crystallographer, molecular biologist, and medical researcher. Pauling is widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. He pioneered the application of quantum mechanics to chemistry, and in 1954 was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work describing the nature of chemical bonds.
- Gregory Benford
Has published over twenty books, mostly novels. Nearly all remain in print, some after a quarter of a century. His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. A winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, he is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for contributions to science.
- George Akerlof
George Akerlof was born on June 17, 1940, in New Haven, Connecticut. Akerlof received his Bachelor's degree from Yale in 1962, and his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1966. It was during these years that Akerlof began conducting his extensive research in Keynesian macroeconomics. After graduating, Akerlof became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Orville Schell
Orville Schell is a longtime China observer and dean of the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Five days after the Tiananmen massacre, Deng Xiaoping reappeared in public. As any autocrat in his situation would have, he condemned the student demonstrators and praised the troops who had crushed them.
- Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. A prolific writer, his most well-known book is The End of History and the Last Man (1992), in which he argued that the progression of human history as a struggle between ideologies is largely at an end, with the world settling on liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
- Michael Schudson
Michael Schudson is arguably the country's most respected scholar writing about newspapers and their relationship to society, politics and culture. He is the author of five books and editor of two others concerning the history and sociology of the American news media including the seminal " Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers a; " The Power of News "; " The Sociology of News "; " Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion "; and " Rethinking Popular Culture ."
- Deborah Lipstadt
Deborah Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies and Director of the Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. She has taught at U.C.L.A. and Occidental College in Los Angeles. She received her bachelor's degree from City College of New York and her master's and doctorate from Brandeis University.
- Julianne Malveaux
Dr. Julianne Malveaux is the President of Bennet College for Women. Recognized for her progressive and insightful observations, she is also an economist, author and commentator. Dr. Malveaux's contributions to the public dialogue on issues such as race, culture, gender, and their economic impacts, are shaping public opinion in the 21st century America.
- Alan Dundes
Alan Dundes, (September 8 1935 - March 30, 2005) was a folklorist at the University of California, Berkeley. His work was said to have been central to establishing the study of folklore as an academic discipline. He wrote 12 books, both academic and popular, and edited or co-wrote two dozen more. One of his most notable articles was called "Seeing is Believing" in which he indicated that Americans value the sense of sight more than the other senses.
- Paul Hillier
Paul Hillier is from Dorset in England and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. His career has embraced singing, conducting, and writing about music. Earlier in his career he was founding director of the Hilliard Ensemble, and subsequently founded Theatre of Voices. He has taught in the USA at the University of California campuses at Santa Cruz and Davis, and from 1996-2003 was Director of the Early Music Institute at Indiana University.
- Alexander Shulgin
Alexander studied Chemistry at Harvard University and Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of California at Berkeley. He has authored over 200 research papers published in peer reviewed scientific journals, been awarded some 20 patents, has published 20 book chapters, and written four books. Alexander has been studying the chemistry and effects of the psychedelics for over 30 years.
- Robert C. Dynes
Robert C. Dynes came to UCSD in 1992 after a 22-year career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he served as department head of semiconductor and material physics research and director of chemical physics research. He subsequently became Chairman of the Department of Physics and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. He became Chancellor in July 1996. Dynes is also active in the national scientific arena and in San Diego civic organizations. source
- Raymond L. Orbach
Raymond Orbach was sworn in as the Director of the Department's Office of Science on March 14,2002. With an annual budget of$3.3 billion, the Office of Science is the principal funding agency of the nation's research programs in high-energy physics, nuclear physics and fusion energy sciences. The office also manages research programs in basic energy sciences, biological and environmental sciences, and computational science, all of which also support the missions of the department.
- Alexander Pines
Pines is a pioneer in the development and applications of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. In his early work, he demonstrated time-reversal of dipole-dipole couplings in many-body spin systems, and introduced high sensitivity, high resolution NMR of dilute spins such as carbon-13 in solids (proton-enhanced nuclear induction spectroscopy), thereby helping to launch the era of modern solid-state NMR in chemistry.
- Leonard Kleinrock
Kleinrock, Leonard Based on his Ph.D. work at MIT on computer networking, Kleinrock was asked to join ARPA to work on a unified network in response to Sputnik. Kleinrock's work with ARPA led directly to the creation of the ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet), and UCLA, where Kleinrock had been a professor since 1963, was the first node to join the ARPANET. Kleinrock is currently a professor of computer science at UCLA and is chairman and founder of Nomadix.
- Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto." His previous book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
- Melvin Calvin
Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 - January 8, 1997) was a chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle (along with Andrew Benson), for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent virtually all of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the son of Jewish immigrants. His father was Lithuanian and his mother Georgian.
- Henry F. Schaefer III
Since 1987 Dr. Schaefer has been Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia.
- Richard Karp
Richard M. Karp was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1935 and was educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 1959. From 1959 to 1968he was a member of the Mathematical Sciences Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. From 1968 to 1994 he was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Eli Yablonovitch
Professor Eli Yablonovitch , a pioneer in the fi eld of opto-electronics and photonic bandgap research, is the Northrop Grumman Chair in Optoelectronics. He also heads the UCLA EE Department Optoelectronics Group, which is focused on the future of electronics and optoelectronics. Among the technological changes that will be forthcoming in the near future are:
- Clark Kerr
Clark Kerr (May 17, 1911 - December 1, 2003) was the first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952-1958) and the 12th President of the University of California (1958-1967).
- Howard Mudd
Howard Edward Mudd (born February 10, 1942, Midland, Michigan) is a former American Football offensive lineman who played seven seasons for the San Francisco 49ers and the Chicago Bears from 1964 to 1970 in the National Football League. He graduated from Hillsdale College in 1963. Mudd was a three time Pro Bowler in 1966, 1967 and 1968. He retired in 1971 due to a knee injury. Mudd has been an offensive line coach for various NFL teams since 1974, …
- Herbert Boyer
Herbert W. Boyer (b. 1936) is a recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Science, and co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson-MIT Prize and a co-founder of Genentech. Boyer received his bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry from Saint Vincent College in the Pittsburgh suburb of Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 1958. He married his wife Grace the following year. He received his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 1963 and participated as an activist in the civil rights movement.
- Daniel Ben-Horin
In addition to guiding the evolution of the organization, Ben-Horin speaks and writes frequently on issues related to the underserved's access to technology. He also serves on the board of the Nonprofit Finance Fund. Since 2004 ,The Nonprofit Times has been including Ben-Horin on its annual list of the 50 most influential leaders in the U.S.nonprofit sector.
- John Joseph Hopfield
Hopfield, professor of molecular biology, is a theoretical biophysicist who was previously a professor at Princeton from 1964 to 1980. Among his current interests is biological information processing. For the past 17 years he was professor of chemistry and biology at California Institute of Technology. From 1993 to 1995 he was chair of the faculty there, and from 1986 to 1991 he chaired the computational and neural systems program.
- Julian Schwinger
Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 -- July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. He formulated the theory of renormalization and posited a phenomenon of electron-positron pairs known as the Schwinger effect. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics (QED), along with Richard Feynman and Shinichiro Tomonaga
- Willard Libby
Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 - September 8, 1980) was an American physical chemist, famous for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology. Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado. He received his B.S. (1931) and Ph.D. (1933) degrees in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where he then became a lecturer and later assistant professor.
- Vikram Amar
- Chris Abani
Chris Abani (Nigeria), poet and novelist, was arrested in 1985 and again in 1987 when plots of his novels were said to be plans for attempts to overthrow the government. He spent six months in prison in 1985. In 1987, he was held in Kiri-Kiri Maximum Security Prison for a year and tortured. On his release, Mr. Abani entered Imo State University.