List of University of California, Berkeley faculty

This page lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Berkeley. Faculty who were also alumni are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parentheses.

By award

Nobel Prize

Turing Award

Academy Award

Fields Medal

Pulitzer Prize

Wolf Prize

Breakthrough Prize

National Medal of Science

National Medal of Technology

• Chenming Hu, 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 is also known as the "Genius Grant" or "Genius Award".

Enrico Fermi Award

Kellogg National Leadership Award

• Galen Cranz – researcher and professor (1975–2018) at UC Berkeley; 1981–1984

Environmental Design Research Association Career Award

• Galen Cranz – researcher and professor (1975–2018) at UC Berkeley; 2011 award for "her ability to transcend the boundaries of discipline, to cross from meticulous intellectual work to applied research and design, and her passion, integrity, and deep concern for the rightness of all things and places we use embody what is best about EDRA"

By field

Agriculture

• Irma Adelman (B.S. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) – professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Dennis Robert Hoagland – professor of Plant Nutrition

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 (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 – professor of Education
• Arthur Jensen (B.A. 1945) – professor emeritus of Educational Psychology
• Jean Lave – professor emerita of Education and Geography
• Elliot Turiel – professor of Education

Electrical engineering

Ethnic studies

• Vévé Amasasa Clark (Ph.D. 1983) – professor of African American Studies
• Evelyn Nakano Glenn (B.A. 1962) – professor of Ethnic Studies, and professor of Gender and Women's Studies
• Michael Omi – associate professor of Ethnic Studies
• Ronald Takaki (Ph.D. 1967) – professor emeritus of Ethnic Studies
• Young Shin – lecturer

Film studies

• Kaja Silverman (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

Geography

• Michael J. Watts – professor of Geography and Development Studies

Geology

• Walter Alvarez – professor of Geology
• Garniss Curtis (Ph.D. 1951) – professor emeritus of Geology

History

Industrial engineering and operations research

• Stuart Dreyfus – 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 – professor of Hydraulic Engineering (1947–1970); son of Albert Einstein
• Carlos Fernandez-Pello – professor of Mechanical Engineering and research scientist in combustion
• Chang-Lin Tien – university professor (UC system), NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering, chancellor of Berkeley campus (1990–1997)
• Blake R. Van Leer – professor of Mechanical Engineering

Music

Nuclear engineering

• Donald R. Olander – professor of Nuclear Engineering and James Fife Chair in Engineering

Philosophy

Physics

Political science

Psychology

Public health

Sociology

See also

• List of University of California, Berkeley alumni
• List of University of California, Berkeley alumni in science and technology

References