This page lists notable faculty (past and present) of the

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. Faculty who were also

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are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parentheses.

Nobel laureates

Turing Award

Academy Award

Fields Medal

Pulitzer Prize

Wolf Prize

Breakthrough Prize

National Medal of Science

National Medal of Technology

Chenming Hu Chenming Calvin Hu (; born 1947) is a Chinese-American electronic engineer who specializes in microelectronics. He is TSMC Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the electronic engineering and computer science department of the University of Califo ...

, MS, PhD – professor emeritus of EECS at UC Berkeley; 2014 National Medal of Technology and Innovation ''"for pioneering innovations in microelectronics including reliability technologies, the first industry-standard model for circuit design, and the first 3-dimensional transistors, which radically advanced semiconductor technology"'' * Arthur H. Rosenfeld – professor of physics (1954-2017); 2011 National Medal of Technology and Innovation ''"for extraordinary leadership in the development of energy-efficient building technologies and related standards and policies"''

MacArthur Fellowship

The

MacArthur Fellowship The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

is also known as the "Genius Grant" or "Genius Award".

Enrico Fermi Award

Agriculture

* Irma Adelman (B.S. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) – Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Anthropology

Art and architecture

Astronomy

Biology

Business

Chemistry

Civil engineering

* Frank Baron – Professor of Civil Engineering * William Garrison – Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering *

T. Y. Lin Tung-Yen Lin (; November 14, 1912 – November 15, 2003) was a Chinese-American structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete. Biography Born in Fuzhou, Republic of China (ROC), as the fourth of elev ...

(M.S. 1933) – Professor of Civil Engineering; bridgebuilder * William J. Oswald (B.E. 1950, M.S. 1951, Ph.D. 1957) – Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Computer science

Economics

Education

Andrea diSessa Andrea diSessa (born June 3, 1947) is an education researcher and author of the book '' Turtle Geometry'' about Logo. He has also written highly cited research papers on the epistemology of physics, educational experimentation, and constructivist ...

– Professor of Education *

Arthur Jensen Arthur Robert Jensen (August 24, 1923 – October 22, 2012) was an American psychologist and writer. He was a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jensen was known for his work in psychometrics an ...

(B.A. 1945) – Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology * Jean Lave – Professor Emerita of Education and Geography *

Elliot Turiel Elliot Turiel (born 1938) is a United States born psychologist and Chancellor’s Professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches courses on human development and its relation to education. Educa ...

– Professor of Education

Electrical engineering

Ethnic studies

* Vévé Amasasa Clark (Ph.D. 1983) – Professor of African American Studies *

Evelyn Nakano Glenn Evelyn Seiko Nakano Glenn is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to her teaching and research responsibilities, she served as founding director of the university'Center for Race and Gender(CRG), a leading U.S. acade ...

(B.A. 1962) – Professor of Ethnic Studies, and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies *

Michael Omi Michael Omi (born 1951) is an American sociologist, writer, scholar, and educator. Omi has served on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Associate Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. Omi i ...

– Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies * Ronald Takaki (Ph.D. 1967) – Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies

Film studies

Kaja Silverman Kaja Silverman (born September 16, 1947) is an American art historian and critical theorist. She is currently the Katherine and Keith L. Sachs Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. She received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Englis ...

(1940) – Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric * Brett Simon (Ph.D. 2003) – Professor of Film Studies * Linda Williams (B.A. 1969) – Professor of Film Studies

Foreign languages and culture

Geology

Walter Alvarez Walter Alvarez (born October 3, 1940) is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most widely known for the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact, developed in ...

– Professor of Geology *

Garniss Curtis Garniss H. Curtis, (born May 27, 1919 – died December 19, 2012) was a professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, geochronologist, volcanologist, geophysicist, and founder of the Berkeley Geochronology Center. In 1960, Curt ...

(Ph.D. 1951) – Professor Emeritus of Geology

Geography

* Michael J. Watts – Professor of Geography and Development Studies

History

Industrial engineering and Operations Research

Stuart Dreyfus A native of Terre Haute, Indiana, Stuart E. Dreyfus is professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department. While at the Rand Corporation he was a programmer of the JOHNNIAC com ...

– Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research * Ashok Gadgil (M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1979) – Adjunct Professor, Energy and Resources Group * Ken Goldberg – Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Law

Linguistics

Literature and rhetoric

Mathematics

Mechanical engineering

Hans Albert Einstein Hans Albert Einstein (May 14, 1904 – July 26, 1973) was a Swiss-American engineer and educator, the second child and first son of physicists Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić. He was a long-time professor of hydraulic engineering at the Univ ...

– Professor of Hydraulic Engineering (1947–1970); son of

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...

* Carlos Fernandez-Pello – Professor of

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, an ...

and research scientist in

combustion Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke. Combus ...

Blake R. Van Leer Blake Ragsdale Van Leer (August 16, 1893 – January 23, 1956) was an engineer and university professor who served as the fifth president of Georgia Institute of Technology from 1944 until his death in 1956. Early life and education Van Leer was ...

– Professor of Mechanical Engineering *

Chang-Lin Tien Chang-lin Tien (; July 24, 1935 – October 29, 2002) was a Chinese-American professor of mechanical engineering and university administrator. He was the seventh chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990–1997), and in that ...

– University Professor (UC system), NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Chancellor of Berkeley campus (1990–1997)

Music

Nuclear engineering

* Donald R. Olander – Professor of Nuclear Engineering and James Fife Chair in Engineering