List of University of California, Berkeley faculty
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This page lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Berkeley. Faculty who were also alumni are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parenthesis.
- Giorgio Agamben - Visiting Chair of Italian Culture (1994), Department of Italian Studies
- George A. Akerlof - Nobel laureate (2001, economics), Professor of Economics
- Luis W. Alvarez - Nobel laureate (1968, physics), Professor of Physics
- Walter Alvarez - Professor of Geology
- Reinhard Bendix - Professor of Sociology (1947-1991)
- Lowell Bergman - Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor of Journalism
- Manuel Blum - Professor of Computer Science and recipient of the 1995 Turing Award
- Herbert Bolton - Sather Professor and Chair of History, First Director of Bancroft Library
- Richard Borcherds - Fields medallist (1998), Professor of Mathematics
- Leo Brewer - Professor of Chemistry; member of the NAS; father of high temperature chemistry and former Associate Director of Berkeley National Lab)
- Wendy Brown - Professor of Political Science
- Judith Butler - Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature
- Jon Burgstone - Faculty Chair, Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology
- Carlos Bustamante - Professor of Physics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Chemistry (1951)
- Melvin Calvin - Nobel laureate (1961, chemistry), University Professor of Chemistry, discovered Calvin Cycle
- David Card - Professor of Economics, John Bates Clark Medal Winner (1995)
- Owen Chamberlain - Nobel laureate (1959, physics), Professor of Physics
- Shiing-Shen Chern - leading differential geometer, Professor of Mathematics
- Leon O. Chua - Professor of Electrical Engineering, recipient of the 2005 IEEE Gustav Kirchoff Award and originator of Chua's circuit
- Robert E. Connick (Ph.D. 1942) - professor of chemistry, dean of college of chemistry, vice-chancellor
- Donald Davidson - philosopher, Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy
- Gerard Debreu - Nobel laureate (1983, economics), Professor of Economics and of Mathematics
- J. Bradford DeLong - Professor of Economics
- Bernard L. Diamond, M.D., Professor of Law and Psychiatry
- Hubert Dreyfus - Professor of Philosophy
- Harry Edwards- Professor Emeritus of Sociology
- Hans Albert Einstein - Professor of Hydraulic Engineering (1947 - 1970 [1]), son of Albert Einstein
- Erik Erikson - Professor of Psychology (1942-1950)
- Carlos Fernandez-Pello - Professor of Mechanical Engineering and research scientist in combustion.
- Paul Feyerabend - philosopher of science
- Stanley Fish - Professor of English (1962-1974)
- Andreas Floer - Professor of Mathematics (1988-1990), developed Floer homology
- Michel Foucault - Visiting Professor of French (early 1980s)
- Jean Fréchet - Professor of Organic Chemistry and current Henry Rapoport Chair of Organic Chemistry
- Catherine Gallagher (B.A. 1972, M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1979) - Eggers Professor of English
- Clifford Geertz - Assistant Professor of Anthropology (1958-60), now Professor Emeritus at Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ.
- William F. Giauque (B.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1922) - Nobel laureate (1949, Chemistry)
- Donald A. Glaser - Nobel laureate (1950, physics), Professor of Molecular Biology and of Physics
- Erving Goffman - Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Sociology (1958-1968)
- Stephen Greenblatt - Professor of English (1969-1997)
- Erich S. Gruen - Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics
- Thom Gunn - Senior Lecturer, MacArthur Fellow
- John C. Harsanyi - Nobel laureate (1994, economics)
- Robert Hass - U.S. Poet Laureate, Professor of English
- William Ibbs - Professor of Construction Management, consulting engineer
- Martin Jay - Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History
- Joe W. Johnson, B.S. 1931, M.S. 1934 - Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, coastal-engineering and beach-erosion specialist, member of the National Academy of Engineering, recipient of ASCE's Moffatt-Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award, namesake of an award bestowed annually by the California Shore and Beach Preservation Association
- Michael I. Jordan - Professor of Computer Science, highly-publicized academic in artificial intelligence.
- Vaughan Jones - Fields medallist (1990), Professor of Mathematics
- Ken Jowitt - Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Robson Professor of Political Science
- Theodore Kaczynski - the Unabomber, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- William Kahan - Professor of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, primary architect behind the IEEE 754 standard for floating-point computation, and recipient of the 1989 Turing Award
- Richard Karp - Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Operations Research, and recipient of the 1985 Turing Award
- Jay D. Keasling - Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
- Evelyn Fox Keller - Professor of Rhetoric, History, and Women's Studies (1988-1992)
- Clark Kerr (Ph.D. 1939) - Professor of Industrial Relations, Chancellor (1952-58), UC President (1958-67)
- Maxine Hong Kingston (B.A. 1962) - author (Woman Warrior), Senior Lecturer
- Alfred Kroeber - Professor of Anthropology and father of Ursula LeGuin
- Thomas Kuhn - Professor of the Philosophy and History of Science (1956-1964)
- Arthur Jensen (B.A. 1945) - Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology
- George Lakoff - Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science
- Jean Lave - Professor Emerita of Education and Geography
- Ernest O. Lawrence - Nobel laureate (1939, physics)
- Yuan T. Lee (Ph.D. 1962) - Nobel laureate (1986, Chemistry), Professor of Chemistry, Principal Investigator, Materials and Molecular Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- G.N. Lewis - Dean of the College of Chemistry, professor of physical chemistry
- Willard Libby (B.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1930) - Professor of Chemistry, Nobel laureate (1960, Chemistry)
- T. Y. Lin (M.S. 1933) - Professor of Civil Engineering, bridgebuilder
- Leon F. Litwack (B.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1958) - Pulitzer Prize (Been in the Storm So Long [1980]), Morrison Professor of American History
- Michel Loève - Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
- Leo Lowenthal - Member of the Frankfurt School for Social Research, along with Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno; Professor of Sociology (1956-1992)
- Geoffrey Marcy, Professor of Astronomy, has discovered many extrasolar planets
- James Matisoff (Ph.D 1967) - Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, expert in the Tibeto-Burman languages
- Bernard Maybeck - drawing instructor (1894), Professor of Architecture (1898-1903)
- Edwin M. McMillan - Nobel laureate (1951, chemistry), Professor of Physics, Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- Daniel L. McFadden - Nobel laureate (2000, economics)
- Walter Benn Michaels - Professor of English (1977-1987)
- D. A. Miller - John F. Hotchkis Professor of English
- Czesław Miłosz - Nobel laureate (1980, literature), Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Emeritus
- Roger Montgomery - Dean, College of Environmental Design, Professor of Urban Design, Architecture, and City and Regional Planning (1967-1996)
- Bharati Mukherjee - Professor of English
- Richard A. Muller - Professor of Physics, MacArthur Fellow
- Laura Nader - Professor of Anthropology, pioneer of Legal Anthropology, older sister of Ralph Nader
- John H. Northrop - Nobel laureate (1946, chemistry)
- Peter Norvig (Ph.D 1985) - former research faculty member, the other co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
- Geoffrey Nunberg - Professor, School of Information
- Robert Oppenheimer - Professor of Physics, scientific head of the Manhattan Project, "father of the atomic bomb"
- John K. Ousterhout - Professor of Computer Science and creator of the Tcl programming language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit
- Christos Papadimitriou - Professor of Computer Science. Also a member of Lady X and the Positive Eigenvalues.
- Andreas Papandreou - Professor and Chair of Economics, Prime Minister of Greece
- David A. Patterson - Professor of Computer Science, pioneer of RISC computer design
- Donald Pederson - Professor of Electrical Engineering, creator of SPICE, the canonical integrated circuit simulator.
- Kenneth Pitzer (Ph.D. 1937) - Dean of the College of Chemistry (1951-60), Professor of Chemistry, President of Rice University and Stanford University
- Michael Pollan - Knight Professor of Journalism
- Matthew Rabin - Professor of Economics and MacArthur Fellow
- Paul Rabinow - Professor of Anthropology
- Robert Reich - Professor of Public Policy and former U.S. Secretary of Labor
- Ken Ribet - Professor of Mathematics, contributor to the proof of Fermat's last theorem
- Josiah Royce - Professor of Composition and Literature
- Mark Rubinstein - Paul Stephens Professor of Applied Investment Analysis, co-developer of the binomial tree method of options valuation
- Stuart J. Russell - Professor of Computer Science, co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
- Dana Scott (B.S. 1954) - computer scientist, recipient of the 1976 Turing Award, Associate Professor of Math
- Glenn T. Seaborg (Ph.D. 1937) - Nobel laureate (1951, Chemistry), University Professor of Chemistry, Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Chancellor, Berkeley campus (1958-1961)
- John Searle - Professor of Philosophy
- Emilio G. Segrè - Nobel laureate (1959, physics), Professor of Physics, Emeritus
- Julian Schwinger - theoretical physicist, National Research fellow
- Alexander C. Scordelis (B.S. 1948) - Byron & Elvira Nishkian Professor of Structural Engineering, Emeritus
- Kaja Silverman - Class of 1940 Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric
- George F. Smoot - Nobel laureate (2006, Physics)
- Wendell M. Stanley - Nobel laureate (1946, chemistry)
- John R. Steel - Set Theorist
- Ronald Takaki (Ph.D. 1967) - Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies
- Richard Taruskin - Professor of Music
- Edward Teller - Professor of Physics, "father of the hydrogen bomb"
- Chang-Lin Tien - University Professor (UC system), NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Chancellor of Berkeley campus (1990-1997)
- Claire J. Tomlin (Ph.D. 1998) - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and 2006 MacArthur Fellow
- Charles H. Townes - Nobel laureate (1964, physics), University Professor of Physics
- Laura D'Andrea Tyson - Professor of Economics, Professor of Business Administration, former Dean of the Haas School of Business and former Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors
- Kim Voss - Professor of Sociology and current Chair of Sociology
- Frederic Wakeman, Jr. (Ph.D. 1965) - Haas Professor of Asian Studies, Professor of History, President Emeritus of the American Historical Association
- Loïc Wacquant - Professor of Sociology
- David Wagner (M.S. 1999, Ph.D. 2000) - Assistant Professor of Computer Science, well-known researcher in cryptography.
- Ulrich Walter - German astronaut, now professor at the Technische Universität München
- Ian Watt - Professor of English (1952-1962), author of the classic The Rise of the Novel (1957)
- Harry R. Wellman - Acting President (1967), University of California
- Bernard Williams - Professor of Philosophy
- Linda Williams (B.A. 1969) - Professor of Film Studies
- W. Hugh Woodin - Set Theorist
- Charles W. Woodworth - (1891-1930) Founder of the UCB Division of Entomology, PBESA gives the C. W. Woodworth Award
- John Yoo - (born 1967) Professor of Law at the Boalt Hall School of Law, contributor to the PATRIOT Act
- Lotfi A. Zadeh - Professor of Computer Science, "Father of Fuzzy Logic 1965," IEEE Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems 2000, IEEE Medal of Honor, 1995
