History

150th Anniversary Celebration Video

For our 150th Anniversary, check out our video below as we celebrate the past, present, and future of UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry:

The past, present, and future of UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry

Original Chemistry Building in 1897

Berkeley Chemistry: 1868 to the Present

Chemistry has been part of Berkeley since the University's charter was signed on March 23,1868. The chemist Robert Fisher was one of the first ten faculty to be hired.

Agnes Fay Morgan, Judith Klinman and Darleane Hoffman

The first women chemists at Cal

The College salutes the pioneer women chemistry faculty at Cal. Both as scientists, and as early faculty members at the University, they helped to pave the way for the next generations of women faculty and students.

Seaborg, Ghiorso and other 104 discovery colleagues.

UC Berkeley Chemists and the Periodic Table

Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist who in 1869 wrote out the known elements (of which there were 63 at the time) on cards and then arranged them in columns and rows according to their chemical and physical properties is considered the father of the Periodic Table.

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Robert Andrews Fisher

May 2, 2023

In Memoriam: alumnus Herbert Alexander Young

November 3, 2022

In Memoriam: Alumna Vera Kistiakowsky

October 27, 2022

Celebrating 25 years of groundbreaking research at Tan Kah Kee Hall

October 11, 2022

Alumna Miriam Elizabeth Simpson

September 2, 2022

David Lyon, UC chemistry professor, dies at 89

August 20, 2022

In Memoriam Charles Bonner Harris Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

March 10, 2020

Theoretical chemist Robert Harris has passed away

July 12, 2022