150th Celebration

Meet our faculty: Alexis T. Bell

August 10, 2020
Roger Eardley-Pryor | UC Berkeley Oral History Project
Alexis T. Bell: A Career in Catalysis and University Administration at UC Berkeley

Alex Bell

Alexis T. Bell in UC Berkeley classroom, circa 1990.

Alexis T. Bell is the Dow Professor of Sustainable Chemistry in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular...

Agnes Fay Morgan, Home Economics: Berkeley

February 22, 2021
By Ruth Okey, Barbara Kennedy Johnson, and Gordon Mackinney

Agnes Fay Morgan

Agnes Fay Morgan(link is external) (1884-1968)

Professor Emeritus of Nutrition Biochemist Emeritus, Agricultural Experiment Station

“There were giants in the earth in those days,” and time will...

Scientific glassblower continues century-old campus tradition

February 19, 2021
Gretchen Kell | UC Berkeley media relations

Jim Breen has been the campus’s glassblower for 18 years. (UC Berkeley video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally)

To find Room B63 in the nondescript, industrial basement of UC Berkeley’s Hildebrand Hall, it’s best to follow your ears. On a recent afternoon, the Troggs’ 1966 rock hit “Wild Thing” led the way. But once inside the door, don’t expect a party, despite the non-stop music and abundant glassware.

This is the College of Chemistry’s Glass Shop, the busy workspace of scientific glassblower Jim Breen. For the past 16 years, the highly-skilled artisan has...

Shop supervisor Eric Granlund retires

June 25, 2018
by Marge d'Wylde


Shop supervisor Eric Granlund retiresThe College is saying farewell to Eric Granlund, Shop Supervisor. Eric has been at the College since July 1985, concluding 33 years of service with his retirement this month.

Isadore Perlman

March 31, 2020

Isadore Perlman (left) Frank Asaro (right) Berkeley Lab

Isadore Perlman (left) with associate and Frank Asaro (right), taken January 15, 1964 at Berkeley Lab. Photographer: Donald Cooksey

By Frank Asaro, Joseph Cerny, Samuel S. Markowitz, John O. Rasmussen, and Glenn T. Seaborg

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Donald Hanson

March 24, 2020
Michael Barnes, College of Chemistry, and Robert Sanders, Media Relations

Charles Tobias, Campbell Williams, and Donald Hanson

Undated photo of Charles Tobias, Campbell Williams, and Donald Hanson. (Photo: College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley)

Donald N. Hanson(link is external), professor emeritus of chemical...

Frederick Cottrell

March 17, 2020
Research Corporation for Advance Science

Frederick CotrellUndated portrait of Frederick Gardner Cottrell (Smithsonian)

From the about section of the Research Corporation For Advance Science>(link is external)

A native of Oakland, California, Frederick Gardner Cottrell (1877-1948) early revealed the intense scientific curiosity and drive...

David Nathaniel Lyon

March 18, 2020
By C. Judson King, Harry Chiladakis, and Norman E. Phillips

David Lyon with Dorothy Lyon and Clayton Heathcock

David lyon, his wife Dorothy Lyon, and Clayton Heathcock. Photo: College of Chemistry.

David Nathaniel Lyon(link is external) died December 10, 2008. He was living with his second wife, Dorothy, in a...

Gerhard Krohn Rollefson

March 31, 2020

By T. D. Stewart, R. E. Connick, and R. E. Powell

Gerhard Rollefson

Gerhard Krohn Rollefson(link is external) was associated with the University of California at Berkeley as a graduate student and as a member of...

Ermon Dwight Eastman

July 29, 2020

By J.H. Hildebrand, S.C. Pepper, and T.D. Stewart

Ermon Dwight Eastman

Ermon Dwight Eastman, Professor of Chemistry, was born in Marysville, California, November 30, 1891. He attended the Marysville schools through the lower grades and graduated from high school after a final year in the Fremont High School, Oakland. He entered the College of...