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 parentheses.
The MacArthur Fellowship is also known as the "Genius Grant" [184] or "Genius Award". [185]
After a brief stint working with special effects-giant Douglas Trumbull (of 2001 fame), a young John Dykstra found work on a research project in the urban simulation laboratory of the Institute for Urban and Regional Development (IURD) at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design...From building miniature buildings, streets and facades—the IURD lab would ultimately build a 40-foot-wide (12-meter) model of all San Francisco — Dykstra came to work on the novel camera system developed for the model-urban films... When the simulation project at Berkeley ran out of funding in 1975, Dykstra returned to Los Angeles. From friends at Trumbull's studio, he learned of Lucas's special-effects needs for Star Wars. At a fateful meeting with Lucas and producer Gary Kurtz, Dykstra proposed the Berkeley-developed system as a way to film the complex spacecraft dogfights Lucas envisioned.
John Dykstra, a special effects artist and pioneer in the use of computers in filmmaking, developed research in the urban simulation laboratory of the Institute for Urban and Regional Development which he would later use for filming the space dog fights in Star Wars.
Dykstra recruited Alvah J. Miller and Jerry Jeffress, who he'd worked with at Berkeley's Institute of Urban and Regional Development...Dykstra and team took home the 1978 Academy Award for visual effects. And the academy also presented Dykstra, Miller and Jeffress with a special technical achievement award for the Dykstraflex system.
Two Daily Californian alumni and a Berkeley-based author were the recipients of 2016 Pulitzer Prizes, announced Monday...Miller graduated from UC Berkeley in 1992 and worked at the St. Petersburg Times, now called the Tampa Bay Times, for about three years.
Thomas Peele, a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, is among East Bay Times staffers honored today with a Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news category for their reporting on Oakland's deadly Ghost Ship warehouse party fire.
Much of the excitement around combining these two areas — the immunology of cancer and the immunology of infectious disease — comes from the amazing success of immunotherapy against cancer, which started with the work of James Allison when he was a professor of immunology at UC Berkeley and director of the Cancer Research Laboratory from 1985 to 2004
Calvin, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1961, was a University Professor of Chemistry. Born April 8, 1911, he retired in 1980, but continued his research until recently. "Since his appointment at Berkeley in 1937, Melvin influenced many areas of chemistry. It goes without saying that he became one of our most illustrious colleagues," said Paul Bartlett, chairman of the UC Berkeley chemistry department.
Koshland, a long time professor of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley and a resident of Lafayette, Calif., was 87... Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, he enrolled in UC Berkeley and graduated in 1941 with a B.S. in chemistry...Following two postdoctoral years at Harvard University, the Koshlands moved to Long Island to work at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where they remained until 1965, when they were recruited to the UC Berkeley faculty.
He came to UC Berkeley in 1972 and retired in 1986, having served as chair of the geology and geophysics department in his final year.
Lured by the noted physicist Luis Alvarez and the ongoing work at the University of California, Berkeley, to build a proton linear accelerator, Panofsky accepted a research assistantship there in 1945, and the following year became an assistant professor, immersing himself in research and teaching...In 1951 Panofsky left Berkeley for Stanford University, also in California, as a full professor, disturbed by the cold war demand that UC employees sign an anti-communist pledge of loyalty, which he did only reluctantly in view of his Manhattan project service.
Harry Bolton Seed taught at the University of California for 39 years...In 1950 Professor Seed joined the Civil Engineering faculty at the University of California, where he spent the remainder of his career as an engineering educator, researcher in geotechnical engineering, and consultant to numerous companies and government agencies.
After receiving my Ph.D. in 1957, I worked at Columbia and then from 1959 to 1966 at Berkeley...From 1966 to 1969, on leave from Berkeley, I was Loeb Lecturer at Harvard and then visiting professor at M.I.T. In 1969 I accepted a professorship in the Physics Department at M.I.T., then chaired by Viki Weisskopf.
Sly said his interest in discrete probability theory and its applications could be traced back to his doctoral times in Berkeley. He said he first learned about random modeling in a class at UC Berkeley — Sly later made a key discovery in constructing embeddings of random sequences, according to the MacArthur Foundation's website. 'One thing I'd say is that a lot of the work that's recognized in the award was while I was at Berkeley,' Sly said. 'I had very productive years both as a student and faculty.'
In the summer of 1935, John came to Berkeley to conduct research on the medical applications of radiation...With the help of Ernest, he raised the money to build the Donner Laboratory, of which he ultimately became the director...He retired in 1970 after a distinguished career and was subsequently appointed to the Board of Regents of the University of California by Governor Reagan.