150th Chemistry

Wade Kornegay: Physicist Engineer

February 4, 2021
by Marge d'Wylde

wade Kornegay, alumnus, 1966 portrait, MIT Lincoln Lab

Dr. Wade Kornegay, MIT Lincoln Lab, 1966. Photo courtesy of MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Wade Kornegay1 (b. 1934) B.S. 1956 (chemistry and mathematics) North Carolina Central University, Ph.D. 1961 (physical chemistry) University of California at Berkeley; from...

George Jura

March 12, 2020

George Jura

Chemistry Professor

By Paul A. Bartlett, Rollie J. Myers, and Andrew Streitwieser, Jr.

George Jura died...

David Henry Templeton

March 19, 2020
by Alan Templeton and Diana Templeton

Professor Templeton in his office

David H. Templeton was born in Houston on March 2, 1920, the second of six children of David and Miriam Templeton, a Presbyterian minister and a homemaker, respectively. Both parents were college graduates, a relatively...

Happy 100th Birthday Gilman Hall

sketch of building

image: 1909 conceptual sketch of Gilman Hall by John Galen Howard, campus supervising architect, 1901-1922

Berkeley 150 logoAs we celebrate the campus sesquicentennial, Gilman Hall will officially turn 100 on March 22...

Frederick Richard Jensen

March 3, 2020

Frederick Richard Jensen

By James Cason, Bruce Rickborn, and Andrew Streitwieser

Frederick Richard (Fritz) Jensen, a long-time member of the Chemistry Department at Berkeley, died after a long and painful illness on February 14, 1987....

Earl Leonard Muetterties

March 20, 2020

Earl Muetterties

By K. N. Raymond, R. A. Andersen, R. G. Bergman, and A. M. Stacy

Earl Muetterties died of cancer on January 12, 1984, at the age of 56. Although he had been at Berkeley for only six years, his contributions to the Berkeley Chemistry Department were important and lasting. His lifetime contributions to the science of chemistry, first as a research worker and later as a teacher, have an...

In Memoriam: Alumna Marjorie (Young) Vold

August 3, 2021
Marge d'Wylde | College of Chemistry

Alums Marjorie Young Vold and Robert Vold

Alumni Robert Vold (Ph.D. '35, Chem) and Marjorie Vold née Young (Ph.D. '36, Chem). Unknown photographer and date. Photo courtesy Tom Aiken.

Marjorie Jean Young (1913 – 1991) was born in Ottawa, Ontario. She moved to the United States in 1918 and became...

Chester Thomas O'Konski

March 20, 2020

Chester Thomas O'Konski

by Liese Greens-Felder | Public Affairs

Chester "Chet" Thomas O'Konski, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry who was one of the first chemists to study nucleic acids and proteins using physical chemistry methods, died at his home in El...

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.

Richard Edward Powell

March 11, 2020
By George Jura, R. E. Connick, A. E. Hutson, and G. A. Somorjai
Powell was born in Chicago in 1917. He earned his B.S. at Berkeley in 1939, and his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1942.