Major Awards & Honors

Paul Alivisatos
Polly Arnold
Paul Bartlett
Alexis T. Bell
Robert G. Bergman
Carolyn Bertozzi
Christopher J. Chang
Morton Denn
Jennifer Doudna
Charles B. Harris
David Chandler 
Graham Fleming
Jean M. J. Fréchet
Martin Head-Gordon
Clayton H. Heathcock
Darleane Hoffman
Enrique Iglesia
Jay D. Keasling
Judith P. Klinman
Yuan T. Lee
Steven Leone
Jeffrey R. Long
Michael Marletta
William Miller
C. Bradley Moore
Daniel Neumark
Alexander Pines
John Prausnitz
Kenneth Raymond
Richmond Sarpong
Richard Saykally
David Shirley
Gabor Somorjai
Andrew Streitwieser
T. Don Tilley
Ignacio Tincoco, Jr.
Birgitta Whaley
Omar Yaghi
Peidong Yang

2015 - Jennifer Doudna

Over the years, many of our faculty members have been honored with the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award for their outstanding teaching abilities. 

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
2024 - Peter Marsden

1970 Mitchel Shen
1973 Bill Miller
1975 Wayne Hubbell
1976 Alex Pines
1984 David Soane
1978 Peter Vollhardt
1987 Jeffrey Reimer
1988 Angelica Stacy
1991 Dan Neumark
1992 Joel Hawkins
1994 Arup Chakraborty
1999 Carolyn Berozzi
2000 Jeffrey Long
2004 Peidong Yang
2005 Kristie Boering
2008 Haw Yang
2009 Richmond Sarpong
2010 Rachel Segalman
2011 Ting Xu
2013 Michelle Chang
2016 Naomi Ginsberg
2020 Evan Miller
2021 Markita Landry
2024 Michael Zuerch

Foreign Member

2021 - Peidong Yang

1949 - Agnes Fay Morgan
1967 - Marjorie J. Vold (Ph.D. '36, Chem)
1990 - Darleane C. Hoffman
1991 - Cynthia Friend (Ph.D. '81, Chem)
1995 - Angelica Stacy
1996 - Geraldine L. Richmond (Ph.D. '80, Chem)
2005 - Frances H. Arnold (Ph.D. '85, ChemE)
2020 - Caroline Chick Jarrold (Ph.D. '94, Chem)
2021 - Carol Burns (Ph.D. '87, Chem)

2008 - Carolyn Bertozzi
2011 - William Miller
2022 - Omar Yaghi

 2013 - Jean M.J. Fréchet
 2017 - Jennifer Doudna

1995 - Michael Marletta
1999 - Carolyn Bertozzi
2015 - Peidong Yang

Alexis T. Bell
Harvey Blanch
Douglas S. Clark
Morton Denn
Jean M. J. Fréchet
Enrique Iglesia
Jay D. Keasling
C. Judson King
John S. Newman
John M. Prausnitz
Clayton Radke
Charles Shank

2013 - Michael Marletta
2015 - Jean M.J. Fréchet
2014 - Richard Mathies
2014 - Jennifer Doudna
2014 - Jay Keasling
2016 - Enrique Iglesia
2016 - Paul Alivisatos
2021 - David Schaffer

1999 - Michael Marletta 
2010 - Jennifer A. Doudna 
2011 - Carolyn Bertozzi
2018 - John Kuriyan

Paul Alivisatos
Alexis T. Bell
Robert G. Bergman
Carolyn Bertozzi
Kristie Boering
Carlos J. Bustamante
David Chandler
Robert Connick
Jennifer Doudna
Graham R. Fleming
Jean M.J. Fréchet
Martin Head-Gordon
Charles B. Harris
John Hartwig
Clayton H. Heathcock
Sung-Hou Kim
Judith P. Klinman
John Kuriyan
Yuan T. Lee
Stephen R. Leone
Jeffrey R. Long
Michael Marletta
William H. Miller
C. Bradley Moore
Daniel M. Neumark
Alexander Pines
John M. Prausnitz
Kenneth N. Raymond
Richard J. Saykally
Charles Shank
Alanna Schepartz
David Shirley
Gabor A. Somorjai
Andrew Streitwieser
T. Don Tilley
Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.
F. Dean Toste
Peidong Yang
Omar Yaghi

1974 -- Kenneth S. Pitzer
1989 -- Melvin Calvin
1983 -- George C. Pimentel
1986 -- Yuan T. Lee
1991 -- Glenn T. Seaborg
1997 -- Darleane Hoffman
1997 -- Harold Johnston
2001 -- Gabor Somorjai
2003 -- John Prausnitz
2012 -- Judith P. Klinman
2014 -- Paul Alivisatos

College faculty and alumni have been awarded eighteen 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)
2020 - Jennifer Doudna
2025 - Omar Yaghi

Former Faculty

1986 - Dudley Herschbach
2021 - David MacMillan (currently at Princeton)

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)
2018 - Frances Arnold (Ph.D. '85)
2022 - Carolyn Bertozzi (Ph.D. '93; currently at Stanford)

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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
2013 - Christopher Chang, Chemistry
2014 - Denis Auroux, Mathematics
2015 - Naomi Ginsberg, Chemistry
2016 - Richmond Sarpong, Chemistry
2017 - Michael Manga, Earth & Planetary Science
2018 - Phillip Geissler, Chemistry†
2019 - Eugene Chiang, Astronomy & Earth and Planetary Science
2020 - Nick Swanson-Hysell, Earth & Planetary Science
2021 - Evan Miller, Chemistry
2022 - David Limmer, Chemistry
2023 - Karthik Shekhar, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

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
2021 - Paul Alivisatos
2026 - Jennifer Doudna

Each year, the Fellows of the Royal Society elect up to 52 new Fellows and up to 10 new Foreign Members. The Foreign Members of the Royal Society are made up of the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists. Foreign Members and Fellows are elected for life through a peer review process on the basis of excellence in science.

Foreign Members
2002 - Alex Pines
2011 - David Chandler
2015 - John Kuriyan
2015 - William Miller
2016 - Jennifer Doudna

Fellow
1973 - Neil Bartlett
1994 - Graham Fleming
2005 - Richard Mathies
2018 - Polly Arnold 
2019 - Martin Head-Gordon

Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry are recognized for substantial contributions made to the chemical science community.

Honorary Fellow
2014 - Gabor Somorjai

Foreign Member

2019 - Alexis Bell

1976 - Neil Bartlett
1984 - Kenneth S. Pitzer
1986 - George C. Pimentel
2007 - William H. Miller
2014 - Robert G. Bergman
2019 - Paul Alivisatos

1982 - George C. Pimentel
1991 - Alexander Pines
1994 - Peter G. Schultz
1998 - Gabor A. Somorjai
2012 - Paul Alivisatos
2017 - Robert G. Bergman
2018 - Omar Yaghi
2019 - John Hartwig
2020 - Jennifer Doudna