- 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). - Glenn Theodore Seaborg
Glenn Seaborg worked his way through UCLA in a variety of ways - as stevedore, night watchman, apricot picker and linotype mechanic apprentice, earning his B.A. degree in 1934. Later he attended UC Berkeley where he became a faculty member and chancellor. Seaborg talked about the influence of "John Mead Adams of UCLA who taught a course in atomic physics in which I learned about nuclear physics. After that course, I knew that I wanted to get into nuclear research." - Bill Joy
Bill Joy served as Sun's Chief Scientist until 2003, and is now a partner with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. - William Hung
William Hung (Traditional Chinese: 孔慶翔, Simplified Chinese: 孔庆翔, Cantonese Yale: Hung2 Hing3 Cheung4, Pinyin: Kǒng Qìngxiáng) (born January 13, 1983) is an American college student who gained fame in early 2004 as a result of his off-key audition performance of Ricky Martin's hit song "She Bangs" on the third season of the television series "American Idol". - Robert McNamara
Robert Strange McNamara (born June 9, 1916) is an American business executive and a former United States Secretary of Defense. McNamara served as U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, during the Vietnam War. He resigned that position to become President of the World Bank (1968-1981). McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. - Steve Wozniak
Dr. Stephan Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11 1950 in San Jose, California) is a U.S. computer engineer and the co-founder of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), with Steve Jobs. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing greatly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s. The Apple II gained a sizable amount of popularity, … - Frederick C. Weyand
Frederick Carlton Weyand (born in Arbuckle, California, September 15, 1916) was a U.S. Army General who was the last commander of American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1972-1973 and who served as US Army Chief of Staff from 1974-1976. - Barbara Lee
Barbara Jean Lee (born July 16 1946), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing (map) and is the first woman to represent that district. Congresswoman Lee was born in El Paso, Texas. She moved from Texas to California in 1960 with her military family parents, and attended high school at San Fernando High School, San Fernando, California. - Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (born April 7, 1938), is the Attorney General for the state of California. Brown has had a lengthy political career spanning terms on the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees (1969-1971), as California Secretary of State (1971-1975), as Governor of California (1975-1983), as chair of the California Democratic Party (1989-1991), and as Mayor of Oakland (1998-2006). - Pete Wilson
Peter Barton Wilson is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator (1983–1991), eleven years as Mayor of San Diego (1971–1983) and five years as a California State Assemblyman (1967–1971). - Robert Curl
Robert Floyd Curl, Jr. (born August 23, 1933) the son of a Methodist Minister is an emeritus professor of chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of fullerene (with the late Richard Smalley, also of Rice University, and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex). Born in Alice, Texas, United States, Curl received a B.A. from Rice University in 1954 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, … - Henry Taube
Professor Henry Taube, Ph.D, M.Sc, B.Sc, FRSC (November 30, 1915 - November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes," otherwise referred to as inner-sphere electron transfer. Taube was born in Neudorf, Saskatchewan and attended high school at Luther College in Regina. - Thomas Cech
Thomas Robert Cech (December 8, 1947 in Chicago) is a Nobel Laureate in chemistry. He grew up in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1966, he entered Grinnell College where he obtained a B.A. in 1970. In 1975, Cech completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and in the same year, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge where he engaged in postdoctoral research. - Yuan T. Lee
Yuan Tseh Lee is a famous chemist. He was the first Taiwanese-born Nobel Prize laureate, who, … - Mario J. Molina
Mario José Molina Henríquez was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in elucidating the threat to the Earth's ozone layer of chlorofluorocarbon gases (or CFCs). This Nobel Prize was shared with Paul J. Crutzen and F. Sherwood Rowland. Mario Molina became the first and only Mexican to ever receive a Nobel Prize for science. Until recently he was an Institute Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT. - Alan J. Heeger
Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936 in Sioux City, Iowa) is a United States physicist and chemistry academic and Nobel Prize winner. He earned his Ph.D in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1961. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 along with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa "for their discovery and development of conductive polymers". He is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. - Dana Scott
Dana Stewart Scott (born 1932) is the emeritus "Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic" at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California. His research career has spanned computer science, mathematics, and philosophy, and has been characterized by a marriage of a concern for elucidating fundamental concepts in the manner of informal rigor, … - Kary Mullis
Kary Banks Mullis, Ph.D. (born December 28, 1944) is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate. Dr Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 for his development of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology which allows the amplification of specified DNA sequences. Dr Mullis subsequently was awarded the Japan Prize that same year. - Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Moore (b. January 3, 1929 in San Francisco, California) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law (published in an article 19 April 1965 in "Electronics Magazine"). Moore was born in San Francisco, California. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1954. - Earl Warren
Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 - July 9, 1974) was a California district attorney of Alameda County, the 20th Attorney General of California, the 30th Governor of California, and the 14th Chief Justice of the United States (from 1953 to 1969). As Chief Justice, his term of office was marked by numerous rulings affecting, among other things, the legal status of racial segregation, civil rights, separation of church and state, and police arrest procedure in the United States. - Shing-Tung Yau
Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949) is a prominent mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds. - Michael Milken
Michael Robert Milken, born July 4, 1946, in Encino, California, is an American financier best known as the "Junk Bond King" of 1980s era Wall Street. He was highly influential in developing the market for junk bonds (a.k.a. "high-yield debt") during the 1970s and 1980s, which in turn fueled the 1980s boom in corporate raids and hostile corporate takeovers. He has been called both a financial innovator and the epitome of 1980s Wall Street greed. - Kathy Baker
Kathy Whitton Baker (born on June 8, 1950) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning American character actress. Baker was born in Midland, Texas, to an American father and a French mother; she was raised a Quaker. Baker has appeared in numerous films and television shows including "Edward Scissorhands", "Picket Fences", "The Cider House Rules" and "Cold Mountain". She began her career at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, … - Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt, Ph.D (b. 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He also sits on the Princeton University Board of Trustees. He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy. - March Fong Eu
March Kong Fong Eu is an American politician of the Democratic Party. She has earned a B.S. in dentistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1943, an M.A. from Mills College, and a Ed.D. from Stanford University in 1954. In 1966, Eu was elected to the California Assembly, representing Oakland and Castro Valley for four terms. She was elected California Secretary of State in 1974, … - Walter A. Haas
Walter A. Haas, Sr. (May 111889 - December 71979) was a former President and Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co. Haas was credited with saving the once struggling company. Haas graduated with a BS degree from the UC Berkeley School of Business in 1910. He also earned an honorary degree from Berkeley in 1958. In 1989, the school was renamed the Haas School of Business in his honor. Haas had three children: Rhoda Haas Goldman, Peter E. Haas, and Walter A. Haas, Jr.. - Thomas Schelling
Thomas Crombie Schelling (born 14 April 1921) is an American economist and professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland College Park. - Joan Didion
Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American writer, known as a journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to "The New York Review of Books". With her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, she collaborated on several screenplays. She lives in New York City. Didion was born in Sacramento, California and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1956 with a BA in English. - Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson (born June 14, 1957 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is a novelist and essayist. She was born to an American mother, Joanne Carole Schieble, and a Syrian father, political science professor Abdulfattah John Jandali. She is the younger sister of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. Jobs was given up for adoption as a baby by his then-unmarried mother; the two siblings only met each other as adults. She attended the University of California at Berkeley, … - Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Leary, (October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. As a 1960s counterculture icon, he is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. He coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out." - Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (born March 5, 1934 in Tel Aviv), is an Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel laureate, notable for his pioneering work on behavioral finance and hedonic psychology. With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and in developing prospect theory. Kahneman spent his childhood years in Paris, France and moved to Israel in 1946. He received his B.Sc. - Bill Lockyer
William Westwood "Bill" Lockyer (born May 8, 1941) is the current State Treasurer of California. Prior to this, he served as California's Attorney General and head of the Department of Justice for the U.S. state of California. He was elected in 1999 on the Democratic ticket, and was replaced by Jerry Brown in 2007. Previously he was a member of the California State Assembly and served as President Pro Tempore of the California State Senate. - Vern Ehlers
Vernon James "Vern" Ehlers (born February 6 1934) is a United States politician and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He has represented Michigan's 3rd congressional district since 1993. The district is based in Grand Rapids and was once represented by former President Gerald Ford. Born in Pipestone, Minnesota, Vern Ehlers attended Calvin College in Grand Rapids for three years before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, … - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (January 5, 1928 - April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as the Prime Minister from 1973 to 1977. One of Pakistan's most suave leaders, Bhutto received education at University of California, Berkeley and Oxford. He was the founder of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which is one of the largest and most influential political parties of Pakistan. - John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15 1908-April 29 2006) was an influential Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th century American liberalism and progressivism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers in the 1950s and 1960s. Galbraith was a prolific author who produced four dozen books and over a thousand articles on various subjects. Among his most famous works was a popular trilogy on economics, … - Ken Thompson
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4 1943), commonly referred to as Ken Thompson (or simply Ken in hacker circles), is an American pioneer of computer science notable for his work with the B programming language and his shepherding the UNIX and Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating systems. - Harold Urey
Harold Clayton Urey (April 29, 1893 - January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 and later led him to theories of planetary evolution. - Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese born American physicist with an expertise in radioactivity. She worked on the Manhattan Project (to enrich the uranium fuel) and disproved the conservation of parity. Her nicknames to many scientists are “First Lady of Physics”, “Madame Curie of China” and also “Madame Wu”. She was killed by her second stroke at noon on February 16, 1997. - William F. Ballhaus Jr.
Dr. William F. Ballhaus, Jr. is an American engineer. On May 1, 2001, he was appointed president and chief executive officer of The Aerospace Corporation, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the objective application of science and technology toward the solution of critical issues in the nation’s space program. He previously worked for Lockheed Martin Corporation, Martin Marietta Corporation and was director of NASA's Ames Research Center. - Lawrence Klein
Lawrence Robert Klein (born September 14, 1920) is an American economist. Klein was born in Omaha, Nebraska. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he was awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1980.
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