This page lists notable faculty (past and present) of the

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. Faculty who were also

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are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parentheses.

Nobel laureates

Turing Award

Academy Award

Fields Medal

Pulitzer Prize

Wolf Prize

Breakthrough Prize

National Medal of Science

National Medal of Technology

* Chenming Hu, MS, PhD – professor emeritus of EECS at UC Berkeley; 2014

National Medal of Technology and Innovation The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (formerly the National Medal of Technology) is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have made significant contributions to the development ...

''"for pioneering innovations in microelectronics including reliability technologies, the first industry-standard model for circuit design, and the first 3-dimensional transistors, which radically advanced semiconductor technology"'' * Arthur H. Rosenfeld – professor of physics (1954-2017); 2011

''"for extraordinary leadership in the development of energy-efficient building technologies and related standards and policies"''

MacArthur Fellowship

The

MacArthur Fellowship The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

is also known as the "Genius Grant" or "Genius Award".

Enrico Fermi Award

Agriculture

* Irma Adelman (B.S. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) – Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Anthropology

Art and architecture

Astronomy

Biology

Business

Chemistry

Civil engineering

* Frank Baron – Professor of Civil Engineering * William Garrison – Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering * T. Y. Lin (M.S. 1933) – Professor of Civil Engineering; bridgebuilder * William J. Oswald (B.E. 1950, M.S. 1951, Ph.D. 1957) – Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Computer science

Economics

Education

* Andrea diSessa – Professor of Education *

Arthur Jensen Arthur Robert Jensen (August 24, 1923 – October 22, 2012) was an American psychologist and writer. He was a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jensen was known for his work in psychometrics an ...

(B.A. 1945) – Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology *

Jean Lave Jean Lave is a social anthropologist who theorizes learning as changing participation in on-going changing practice. Her lifework challenges conventional theories of learning and education. Education and career Lave received a Bachelor's from ...

– Professor Emerita of Education and Geography * Elliot Turiel – Professor of Education

Electrical engineering

Ethnic studies

* Vévé Amasasa Clark (Ph.D. 1983) – Professor of African American Studies * Evelyn Nakano Glenn (B.A. 1962) – Professor of Ethnic Studies, and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies * Michael Omi – Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies *

Ronald Takaki Ronald Toshiyuki Takaki (April 12, 1939 – May 26, 2009) was an American academic, historian, ethnographer and author. Born in pre-statehood Hawaii, Takaki studied at the College of Wooster and completed his doctorate in American history at t ...

(Ph.D. 1967) – Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies

Film studies

* Kaja Silverman (1940) – Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric *

Brett Simon Brett Simon (born November 28, 1973 in Palo Alto, California) is an American commercial, music video and film director. Career Simon graduated from Princeton University ''summa cum laude'' in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative ...

(Ph.D. 2003) – Professor of Film Studies * Linda Williams (B.A. 1969) – Professor of Film Studies

Foreign languages and culture

Geology

Walter Alvarez Walter Alvarez (born October 3, 1940) is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most widely known for the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact, developed in ...

– Professor of Geology * Garniss Curtis (Ph.D. 1951) – Professor Emeritus of Geology

Geography

* Michael J. Watts – Professor of Geography and Development Studies

History

Industrial engineering and Operations Research

* Stuart Dreyfus – Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research *

Ashok Gadgil Ashok Gadgil (born November 15, 1950 in Mumbai, India) Is the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Distinguished Chair and Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Faculty Senior Scientist ...

(M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1979) – Adjunct Professor, Energy and Resources Group *

Ken Goldberg Kenneth Yigael Goldberg (born 1961) is an American artist, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics and automation. He is professor and chair of the industrial engineering and operations research department at the University of ...

– Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Law

Linguistics

Literature and rhetoric

Mathematics

Mechanical engineering

Hans Albert Einstein Hans Albert Einstein (May 14, 1904 – July 26, 1973) was a Swiss-American engineer and educator, the second child and first son of physicists Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić. He was a long-time professor of hydraulic engineering at the Uni ...

– Professor of Hydraulic Engineering (1947–1970); son of

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theor ...

* Carlos Fernandez-Pello – Professor of

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, ...

and research scientist in

combustion Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke. Combus ...

* Blake R. Van Leer – Professor of Mechanical Engineering *

Chang-Lin Tien Chang-lin Tien (; July 24, 1935 – October 29, 2002) was a Chinese-American professor of mechanical engineering and university administrator. He was the seventh chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990–1997), and in that ...

– University Professor (UC system), NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Chancellor of Berkeley campus (1990–1997)

Music

Nuclear engineering

* Donald R. Olander – Professor of Nuclear Engineering and James Fife Chair in Engineering

Philosophy

Physics

Political science

Psychology

Sociology

References

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