American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Distinguished Teaching Awards
Institute of Medicine
MacArthur Fellowship
National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Sciences
National Medal of Science
Nobel Prize
Noyce Prize
Priestley Medal
RSC Centenary Lectureships Award
Welch Award
Wolf Prize
* Emeritus professor
Distinguished Teaching Awards
Over the years, many of our faculty members have been honored for their outstanding teaching abilities. [click for more info]
1961 - Bruce Mahan
1978 - David Lyon
1986 - Donald Hanson
1986 - Alexander Pines
1988 - Michael Williams
1991 - Angelica Stacy
1992 - Richard J. Saykally
1994 - Clayton J. Radke
2001 - Carolyn Bertozzi
2003 - Jeffrey Reimer
2009 - Matthew Francis
2011 - Phillip Geissler
Institute of Medicine
Michael Marletta
Jennifer A. Doudna
MacArthur Fellowship
Carolyn Bertozzi
Michael Marletta
National Academy of Engineering
Alexis T. Bell
Harvey Blanch
Morton Denn*
Jean M. J. Fréchet
Enrique Iglesia
C. Judson King*
John S. Newman
John M. Prausnitz*
Charles Shank
* Emeritus professor
| Paul Alivisatos Alexis T. Bell Robert G. Bergman Carolyn Bertozzi Carlos J. Bustamante David Chandler Robert Connick* Graham R. Fleming Jean M.J. Fréchet Charles B. Harris John Hartwig Clayton H. Heathcock* Harold S. Johnston* Sung-Hou Kim Judith P. Klinman |
John Kuriyan Yuan T. Lee* Stephen R. Leone Michael Marletta William H. Miller Bradley Moore* Alexander Pines John M. Prausnitz* Kenneth N. Raymond Richard J. Saykally Charles Shank David Shirley* Gabor A. Somorjai Andrew Streitwieser* Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.* |
* Emeritus professor
National Medal of Science
Melvin Calvin
Darleane Hoffman*
Harold Johnston*
Yuan T. Lee*
George C. Pimentel
Kenneth S. Pitzer
John Prausnitz*
Glenn T. Seaborg
Gabor Somorjai
*Emeritus Professor
Nobel Tradition
College faculty and alumni have been awarded eleven Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
Faculty
1949 - William F. Giauque (B.S.'20, Ph.D '22)
1951 - Glenn T. Seaborg (Ph.D.'37)
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1986 - Yuan T. Lee (Ph.D.'65)
Alumni
1934 - Harold C. Urey (Ph.D.'23)
1960 - Willard F. Libby (B.S.'31, Ph.D.'33)
1973 - Geoffrey Wilkinson (Postdoc '50)
1983 - Henry Taube (B.S.'35, Ph.D.'40)
1989 - Thomas Cech (Ph.D.'75)
1995 - Mario Molina (Ph.D.'72)
1996 - Robert F. Curl, Jr. (Ph.D.'57)
1999 - Ahmed Zewail (Postdoc.'74)
2002 - Kurt Wüthrich (Postdoc '67)
Info on all UC Berkeley Nobel Laureates
Nobelprize.org website
Noyce Prize
The Donald Sterling Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching is given annually to a faculty member in the physical sciences who has demonstrated excellence in undergraduate teaching, including curriculum development.
| 1987: Donald Noyce, Chemistry 1988: Howard Shugart, Physics 1989: George Pimentel, Chemistry 1990: Richard Packard, Physics 1991: Alexei Filippenko, Astronomy 1992: Alexander Pines, Chemistry 1993: Clayton Radke, Chem Engineering 1994: David Cudaback, Astronomy 1995: James Sethian, Mathematics 1996: Angelica Stacy, Chemistry 1997: Ole Hald, Mathematics 1998: Jeffrey Reimer, Chemical Engineering 1999: George Brimhall, Geology & Geophysics 2000: L. Craig Evans, Mathematics 2001: Carolyn Bertozzi, Chemistry 2002: Carl Heiles, Astronomy 2003: Robert Jacobsen, Physics 2004: Marina Ratner, Mathematics 2005: Enrique Iglesia, Chemical Engineering 2006: Matthew Francis , Chemistry 2007: James Graham, Astronomy 2008: Richard Allen, Earth & Planetary Science 2009: Richard A. Muller, Physics 2010: Eliot Quataert, Astronomy 2011: Walter Alvarez, Earth & Planetary Science 2012: Susan Muller, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering |
Priestley Medal
1962 - Joel H. Hildebrand
1969 - Kenneth S. Pitzer
1978 - Melvin Calvin
1979 - Glenn T. Seaborg
1989 - George C. Pimentel
2000 - Darleane Hoffman*
2008 - Gabor A. Somorjai
* Emeritus professor
More info on the Priestley Medal
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Foreign Membership
The Fellowship of the RSC is made up of the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists from the UK and the Commonwealth. Foreign Members of the RSC are elected for life through a peer review process on the basis of excellence in science. There are currently about 140 Foreign Members.
2002 - Alex Pines
2011 - David Chandler
Welch Award
1976 - Neil Bartlett
1984 - Kenneth S. Pitzer
1986 - George C. Pimentel
2007 - William H. Miller
More info on the Welch Award in Chemistry
Wolf Prize
1991 - Alexander Pines
1998 - Gabor A. Somorjai
2012 - Paul Alivisatos