150th Celebration

Morton Mace Denn

March 25, 2020

Morton Mace Denn

Morton M. Denn (taught at the College of Chemistry from 1981-1999) was born in Passaic, New Jersey on July 7, 1939. He received his BSE in Chemical Engineering from Princeton in 1961 (where he carried out a senior thesis on normal stress measurements...

Joseph Cerny

March 18, 2020

Joseph Cerny

By: Paul Preuss

Joseph Cerny (Ph.D. '61, Chem) Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School, retired after more than half a century of research and leadership at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley. The former head of the Nuclear...

Gerald Eyre Kirkwood Branch

March 3, 2020

Gerald Eyre Kirkwood Branch Portrait

By G. E. Gibson, M. Calvin, J. H. Hildebrand, and J. E. Tippett

Gerald E. K. Branch, was born April 16, 1886, at Basseterre, St. Kitts, British...

Andrew S. Grove

March 25, 2020

Andrew S Grove

In Memoriam

By Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov

Andy Grove (Ph.D. '63, ChemE), a Silicon Valley pioneer and the former CEO and chairman of Intel, passed away aged 79. Mr. Grove joined Intel the day it was incorporated in 1968 and left active roles at the company in late 2004. Andy Grove played a critical role in Intel’s decision to refocus from computer memory to...

James Cason

March 10, 2020

James Cason

By Jane Scheiber, College of Chemistry

James Cason, an emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, died Nov. 3 at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley after a short illness. He was 91.

For almost...

Paul Allan Barlett

March 26, 2020

Paul Allan BarlettEmeritus Professor Paul A. BARTLETT grew up in New England, did his schooling in the Boston area, and graduated with an A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) and...

Peter Armentrout

March 26, 2020

Peter Armentrout

Professor Armentrout (at the College of Chemistry from 1981 to 1986 before moving to University of Utah) was born in Dayton, Ohio on March 13, 1953. He received a B.S. degree with highest honors in 1975 from Case Western Reserve...

A forgotten legacy: How nuclear reactors built for war transformed peacetime science

July 28, 2020
by Catherine Meyers | Inside Science

X-10 Reactor at Oak Ridge, Tenn, WWII

Workers load uranium slugs into the X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge in 1943. Image: Ed Westcott/US Army/Manhattan Engineer District.

On July 16 this year, on what marks the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear bomb test, a patient may go to the doctor for a heart scan. A student may open her...

Neil Bartlett

March 20, 2020

Neil Bartlett

By Michael Barnes

Neil Bartlett, a renowned emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, whose groundbreaking experiments challenged the prevailing views of the nature of noble gases,...

Robert George Bergman

March 20, 2020

Robert George Bergman

Robert G. Bergman was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May 23, 1942. After completing his undergraduate studies in chemistry at Carleton College in 1963, he received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1966 under the direction of Jerome A....