- John Yoo
John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he has taught since 1993. From 2001-03, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers. Professor Yoo received his B.A. summa cum laude in American history from Harvard. - Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). He also is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials. - David Wagner
David A. Wagner (1974) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a well-known researcher in cryptography and computer security. He is a member of the Election Assistance Commission's Technical Guidelines Development Committee, tasked with assisting the EAC in drafting the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. Wagner received an A.B. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1995, … - 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." - Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton . He has written eleven books, including The Work of Nations , which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet , and his most recent book, Supercapitalism . - 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). - David Card
David Card was educated at Queen's University (Canada) and received his PhD from Princeton University in 1983. Briefly at the University of Chicago, he returned to Princeton to teach, until coming to Berkeley in 1997 as the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics. Card's current research interests include the causes and consequences of racial segregation, the economic impacts of immigration, and the effects of health insurance on health care utilization and health. - Hal Varian
Hal Ronald Varian is a central academic in the economics of information technology and the information economy. Varian's assertion that "Technology changes. Economic laws do not." introduces a series of efforts in applying general economic principles to the information economy. As a professor and former dean at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information, the author of many books and papers, a New York Times columnist, and a consultant to Google, Inc, … - Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. Known as "the father of the atomic bomb"," Oppenheimer lamented the weapon's killing power after it was used to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. - Judith Butler
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and the present chair of the Rhetoric Department. Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, … - Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 - June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. He held a chair at the Collège de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," and taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences, and the prison system, as well as his work on the history of sexuality. - 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. - Tom Campbell
Thomas J. (Tom) Campbell (b. August 14, 1952) returned as dean of the Haas School of Business and a professor of business administration at the University of California, Berkeley after a leave of absence to serve as the Director of Finance for the State of California in 2004 and 2005. He previously served five nonconsecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican. - 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. - John Searle
John Rogers Searle (born July 31 1932 in Denver, Colorado) is the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind, and for his views on practical reason and the characteristics of socially constructed versus physical realities. He was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize and the Jovellanos Prize in 2000, and the National Humanities Medal in 2004. - 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." - Robert Birgeneau
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. The first from his family to finish high school, Birgeneau graduated from St. - Julia Morgan
Julia Morgan was an American architect. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Born in San Francisco, California, she was raised in Oakland and graduated from Oakland High School in 1890. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1894 with a degree in civil engineering. At the urging of her friend and mentor Bernard Maybeck, whom she met in her final year in undergraduate school, … - 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. - 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. - 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. - Annalee Saxenian
Her prior publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard University Press, 1994), Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (PPIC, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (PPIC, 2002). Saxenian holds a Doctorate in Political Science from MIT, a Master's in Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Economics from Williams College. - Peter Duesberg
Peter H. Duesberg (born December 2, 1936 in Germany) is a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for his controversial theories on the cause of AIDS. Duesberg initially gained note, at the age of 33, for being the first scientist to discover a cancer gene (oncogene), which he isolated from a virus.. At 36, he earned tenure at the University of California, Berkeley, … - Tim White
Tim White (born August 24, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is an American anthropologist. White majored in biology and anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph. D in physical anthropology from the University of Michigan. In 1974 White worked with Richard Leakey's team at Koobi Fora, Kenya. Richard Leakey was so impressed with White's work he recommended White to his mother, Mary Leakey, … - Bruce Ames
Bruce Ames (born December 16, 1928), is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI). He is the inventor of the Ames test, a system for easily and cheaply testing the mutagenicity of compounds. His research focuses on cancer and aging and he has authored over 500 scientific publications. - 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. - Paul Alivisatos
A. Paul Alivisatos is an American scientist, researching the structural, thermodynamic, optical, and electrical properties of nanocrystals. Alivisatos graduated with a bachelors in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1981, and with a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, where he worked under Charles Harris. In 1986 he joined AT&T Bell Labs working with Louis Brus, and began research in the field of nanotechnology. - David A. Patterson
David A. Patterson has been Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1977, after receiving his A.B., M.S., and Ph.D. from UCLA. He is one of the pioneers of both RISC and RAID, both of which are widely used. Past chair of the Computer Science Department at U.C. Berkeley and the Computing Research Association, … - Phoebe Hearst
Phoebe Apperson Hearst (December 3, 1842 - April 13, 1919) was the mother of William Randolph Hearst. She was born in Franklin County, Missouri. At the age of 19, she married George Hearst, who later became a U.S. Senator. Soon after their marriage the couple moved to San Francisco, California, where Phoebe gave birth to their only child, William Randolph Hearst, in 1863. A major benefactor of the University of California, Berkeley in 1897, … - 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. - Mario Savio
Mario Savio was an American political activist and a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. He is most famous for his passionate speeches, especially his "place your bodies upon the gears" address. - Steven Chu
Steven Chu, born 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American experimental physicist. He is known for his research in laser cooling and trapping of atoms, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997. His current research is concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the single molecule level. He is currently Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology of University of California, … - David Vogel
David Vogel (b.1949) is the Solomon P. Lee Distingiushed Professor in Business Ethics at the University of California, Berkeley campus. He is a member of both the Political Science Department and the Haas School of Business, and is Editor of the "California Management Review". He was the Jean Monnet Chair, European University Institute, in 1994 and the BP Chair in Transatlantic Relations, there in 2000. - Ignacio Chapela
Ignacio Chapela is an microbial ecologist and mycologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and an outspoken critic of the University's ties to the biotechnology industry. He is also notable for authorship of a controversial Nature paper about the flow of transgenes in to wild Mexican maize. In 2005, studies published in PNAS by Mexican scientists do not support Chapela's findings. Chapela is also notable for his work with natural resources and indigenous rights. - Tom Bates
Tom Bates (born February 9, 1938) is a California politician, currently serving as the Mayor of Berkeley, California. He is married to Loni Hancock, a former mayor of Berkeley who currently represents the 14th District in the California State Assembly. Bates is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. While at Cal, he played on the Golden Bears 1959 Rose Bowl team. - Chang-Lin Tien
Chang-lin Tien, as the 8th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990–97), was the first Asian American and Chinese American to head a major U.S. university. Born in Wuhan, mainland China, Tien and his family fled to Taiwan in 1949 at the end of the Chinese Civil War. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1955 and went on to a fellowship at the University of Louisville in 1956, … - Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough is the executive director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on managing technology and innovation. His new book, Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), articulates a new paradigm for organizing and managing R&D, in which companies must access external as well as internal technologies and take them to market through internal and external paths. - Michael Savage
Michael Savage is the pseudonym of Dr. Michael Alan Weiner, Ph.D. (born March 31, 1942). Savage is a controversial independent American conservative talk radio host, author and popular political commentator and as of February 5th a possible candidate for the 2008 Republican nomination for President. He holds masters degrees in medical botany and medical anthropology, and earned a PhD from the University of California, … - 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. - Xiao Qiang
Xiao Qiang is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a Berkeley based China news portal, and the director of the China Internet Project at the Graduate School of Journalism of University of California at Berkeley. Xiao teaches classes on Participatory Media/Collective Action and Blogging China in both the Graduate School of Journalism and the School of Information of University of California at Berkeley.
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