List of University of California, Berkeley alumni

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates This page lists notable alumni and students of the University of California, Berkeley. Alumni who also served as faculty are listed in bold font, with degree and year.

Notable faculty members are in the article List of University of California, Berkeley faculty.

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Nobel Prize and Turing Award Laureates

Name	Degree(s)	Prize year	Prize field	Reason (prize citation)	Additional notability
Frances H. Arnold	Ph.D. 1985<ref name="Sanders20181003">Template:Cite news </ref> || 2018 || Chemistry || "for the directed evolution of enzymes"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || also listed in §National Medal of Technology; Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at Caltech<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="nat med1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Barry Barish	B.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1962<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	2017	Physics	"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Carolyn R. Bertozzi	Ph.D. 1993	2022	Chemistry	"for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Thomas Cech	Ph.D. 1975	1989	Chemistry	"for the discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Owen Chamberlain	Attended (1941-42)	1959	Physics	"for the discovery of the antiproton"<ref name="The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Steven Chu	Ph.D. 1976	1997	Physics	"for the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || Secretary of Energy in the Obama administration
Robert Curl	Ph.D. 1957	1996	Chemistry	"for the discovery of fullerenes"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Joseph Erlanger	B.S. 1895	1944	Medicine	"for discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||
Andrew Fire	B.A. 1978	2006	Medicine<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	"for the discovery of RNA interference – gene silencing by double–stranded RNA"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||
William F. Giauque	B.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1922	1949	Chemistry	"for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||
Carol W. Greider	Ph.D. 1987	2009	Medicine	"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || Daniel Nathans Professor and the Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University
David Gross	Ph.D. 1966	2004	Physics	"for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Alan Heeger	Ph.D. 1961	2000	Chemistry	"for the discovery and development of conductive polymers"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||
David Julius	Ph.D. 1984	2021	Medicine	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||
Daniel Kahneman	Ph.D. 1961	2002	Economics	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Lawrence Klein	B.A. 1942	1980	Economics	"for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Willis Lamb	B.S. 1934, Ph.D. 1938	1955	Physics	"for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Robert Laughlin	B.A. 1972	1998	Physics	"for the discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Yuan T. Lee	Ph.D. 1962	1986	Chemistry	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || Professor of Chemistry; Principal Investigator, Materials and Molecular Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Willard Libby	B.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1933	1960	Chemistry	"for his method to use carbon–14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| Professor of Chemistry
Robert Lucas Jr.	Attended (1959-60)	1995	Economics	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
John C. Mather	Ph.D. 1974	2006	Physics	"for the discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
Mario Molina	Ph.D. 1972	1995	Chemistry	"for work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Kary Mullis	Ph.D. 1973	1993	Chemistry	"for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||
Douglass North	B.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1952	1993	Economics	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||
Saul Perlmutter	Ph.D. 1986	2011	Physics	"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley; co–discoverer of dark energy as head of the Supernova Cosmology Project
Gary Ruvkun	B.A. 1973	2024	Medicine	"for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation"
Thomas J. Sargent	B.A. 1964<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || 2011|| Economics || "for empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Thomas Schelling	B.A. 1944	2005	Economics	"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game–theory analysis"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Glenn T. Seaborg	Ph.D. 1937	1951	Chemistry	"for discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || University Professor of Chemistry; Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Chancellor, Berkeley campus (1958–1961)
William F. Sharpe	Attended (1951-52)	1990	Economics	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Christopher A. Sims	Attended (1963-64)	2011	Economics	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Hamilton O. Smith	B.A. 1952	1978	Medicine	"for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||
Otto Stern	L.L.D 1930	1943	Physics	"for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Henry Taube	Ph.D. 1940	1983	Chemistry	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||
Harold Urey	Ph.D. 1923	1934	Chemistry	"for his discovery of heavy hydrogen"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Selman Waksman	Ph.D. 1918	1952	Medicine	"for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
David J. Wineland	BA Physics 1965<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>	2012	Physics	"for ground–breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||

Turing Award laureates

The Turing Award is considered to be the "Nobel Prize" of computer science.

Name	Degree(s)	Prize year	Reason (prize citation)	Additional notability
Leonard Adleman	B.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1976,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	2002	for the "ingenious contribution for making public–key cryptography useful in practice"	co-author of the RSA encryption algorithm for computer security
Douglas C. Engelbart	B.Eng. 1952,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ph.D. 1955 || 1997 || "for an inspiring vision of the future of interactive computing and the invention of key technologies to help realize this vision" || inventor of the computer mouse; recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 2000, pioneer in hypertext and networked computers
Shafi Goldwasser	M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1983	2012	"for transformative work that laid the complexity–theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography and in the process pioneered new methods for efficient verification of mathematical proofs in complexity theory"<ref name="ACM2012"/>	professor of computer science and the mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science;,<ref name="Abazorius20130313"/> recipient of two Gödel Prizes (1993, "for the development of interactive proof systems" and 2001 "for the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation"); RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT<ref name="Abazorius20130313"/>
Jim Gray	B.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1969	2001<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	"for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation"
Butler Lampson	Ph.D. 1967	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| "for contributions to the development of distributed, personal computing environments and the technology for their implementation: workstations, networks, operating systems, programming systems, displays, security and document publishing" || founding member of Xerox PARC, major contributor to the development of the personal computer
Barbara Liskov	B.A. 1961	2008<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || "for contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing" || first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science (in 1968 at Stanford), creator of CLU, professor at MIT
Silvio Micali	Ph.D. 1982	2012	"for transformative work that laid the complexity–theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography and in the process pioneered new methods for efficient verification of mathematical proofs in complexity theory";<ref name="ACM2012">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> recipient of the Gödel Prize in 1993 "for the development of interactive proof systems" || Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT<ref name="Abazorius20130313">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Dana Scott	B.S. 1954	1976	for "the joint paper (with Rabin) "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem", which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines, which has proved to be an enormously valuable concept. Their (Scott & Rabin) classic paper has been a continuous source of inspiration for subsequent work in this field"	former Associate Professor of Math at UC Berkeley, professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University
Charles P. Thacker	B.A. 1967<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || 2009<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> || "for the pioneering design and realization of the first modern personal computer—the Alto at Xerox PARC—and seminal inventions and contributions to local area networks (including the Ethernet), multiprocessor workstations, snooping cache coherence protocols, and tablet personal computers"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || Microsoft Technical Fellow, chief designer of the Alto computer at Xerox PARC, co–inventor of Ethernet, recipient of the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2007, recipient of the Draper Prize in 2004
Ken Thompson	B.S. 1965, M.S. 1966	1983	for the "development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system"	co–creator of the Unix operating system
Niklaus Wirth	Ph.D. 1967	1984	"for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL–W, MODULA and Pascal"	creator of the Pascal programming language

Academy Award

Recipients

Name	Degree(s)	Notability
Mark Berger	B.A. 1964	recipient of four Academy Awards for sound mixing; adjunct professor at UC Berkeley<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Paul E. Debevec	Ph.D. 1996	Associate Director of Graphics Research at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies, recipient of a Scientific and Technical Academy Award in 2010<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> for work used on the James Cameron film Avatar, the Sam Raimi film Spider–Man 2, and the Peter Jackson film King Kong
Charles H. Ferguson	B.A. 1978	recipient of an Academy Award for Best Documentary for Inside Job (2010),<ref name="Andrew Pulver">Template:Cite news</ref> Academy Award nomination<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> for the documentary film No End in Sight (2007),<ref name="Michelle Meyers">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> former fellow at the Brookings Institution, lifelong member of the Council on Foreign Relations, co-founder of Vermeer Technologies Incorporated (acquired by Microsoft for $133 million<ref name="Steve Hamm">Template:Cite magazine</ref>), founder and president of Representational Pictures
Edith Head	B.A. 1918	costume designer, recipient of eight Academy Awards<ref name="Britannica_EdithHead">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> and nominated for 34 Academy Awards<ref name="Britannica_EdithHead"/>
Sidney Howard	B.A. 1915	screenwriter and dramatist, recipient of the 1940 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Gone with the Wind and the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for They Knew What They Wanted <ref name="Britannica_SidneyHoward">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
Chris Innis	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || recipient of the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (for The Hurt Locker (2010))<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Joe Letteri	B.A. 1981<ref>Template:Cite magazine {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || recipient of four Academy Awards for Best Visual Special Effects in films directed by James Cameron (Avatar) and Peter Jackson (King Kong, The Two Towers and The Return of the King)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Freida Lee Mock	B.A. 1961	documentary filmmaker, recipient of the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1995 (for Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision)
Megan Mylan	M.J. 1997, M.A. 1997	Recipient of an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for Smile Pinki (2009)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Gregory Peck	B.A. 1942<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	actor, recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actor for portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), nominated for the Oscar four other times; served as president of the Screen Actors Guild
Walter Plunkett	B.A. 1923	costume designer, recipient of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the 1951 film An American in Paris starring Gene Kelly
Loren L. Ryder	B.A. 1924<ref name="19850530LosAngelesTimesRyder">"Loren L. Ryder, one of Hollywood's most honored sound directors who was awarded five Academy Awards and nominated for 12 more, has died in a Monterey convalescent hospital…A 1924 physics and mathematics graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, which he attended after Army service in World War I…In 1948, he made what probably was his most important contribution to sound in films, the use of magnetic tape. Before that, studios were forced to rely on heavy optical recorders (Ryder hauled his around in an 11-ton truck). Ryder's system, which today involves recorders weighing ounces rather than tons, was first used in the film "Geronimo" and later on Rudy Vallee's television programs…. The offshoot of those experiments was an industrywide conversion to magnetic tape and Ryder's founding of his own firm in 1948, although he stayed with Paramount until 1957."Template:Cite news</ref>	audio sound engineer, recipient of six Academy Awards,<ref>"Loren L. Ryder, a pioneer of sound technology for motion pictures and the winner of six Academy Awards, died Tuesday at Carmel (Calif.) Convalescent Hospital. In 1945, Mr. Ryder's design, construction and use of the first dial-controlled step-by-step sound channel lineup and test circuit earned him his third Oscar. Four years later, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Mr. Ryder with a special award for the development and application of the supersonic playback and public-address system…The first studiowide application of magnetic sound recording for motion-picture production earned Mr. Ryder and Paramount Studios an Oscar in 1950. Mr. Ryder's final award came in 1955 for a projection film index to establish proper framing for various aspect ratios."Template:Cite news</ref> nominated for another twelve more Academy Awards<ref name="19850530LosAngelesTimesRyder"/>
Will Vinton	B.A. 1970<ref name="Sandomir20181009">Template:Cite news</ref>	pioneer of Claymation® (clay animation),<ref name="Lieber20000331"/> co–recipient of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1974 (Closed Mondays),<ref name="Lieber20000331">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> namesake and founder of Will Vinton Studios (known for The California Raisins and the Domino's Pizza Noid), recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animation programs (A Claymation Christmas Celebration and A Claymation Easter)
Petro Vlahos	B.S. 1941<ref name="Nelson20130220">"By devising new ways to combine separately shot footage of actors and backgrounds into a single scene, he opened the door to such special-effect spectaculars as Star Wars and Titanic. Scenes that had been too dangerous, expensive or difficult to film were suddenly possible...Every film since that has employed a form of the technique owes a debt to Vlahos, industry experts said...After earning a bachelor's degree in 1941 from UC Berkeley, he became a designer at Douglas Aircraft during World War II...He founded Chatsworth-based Ultimatte Corp. in 1976 to research and develop composite technology. Two years later, he received an Emmy Award for his work. Template:Cite news</ref>	pioneer<ref name="Nelson20130220"/><ref name="Kelion20130214">"The visual effects industry has paid tribute to Petro Vlahos - the pioneer of blue- and green-screen systems...His innovations continue to be used and developed by the television, film, computer games and advertising industries. 'Our industry has lost a giant,' Everett Burrell, senior visual effects supervisor at Los Angeles-based studio Look Effects, told the BBC. 'It's hard to even conceive of how we would do what we do without the amazing number of processes and techniques he pioneered. All visual effects professionals and movie fans owe him a debt of gratitude.' Look Effects has built on Mr Vlahos' achievements to create work for the movies Avatar, The Life of Pi and the upcoming Superman film, Man of Steel."Template:Cite news</ref> in traveling matte (blue–screen and green–screen) visual effects technology (used in films such as Ben–Hur, Mary Poppins, and the first Star Wars trilogy<ref name="Kelion20130214"/>), recipient of five special Academy Awards<ref name="VarietyStaff2013REVLAHOS">"Vlahos’ honors from the Academy started with a Scientific and Technical Award in 1960 for a camera flicker indicating device. He earned an Oscar statuette in 1964 for the conception and perfection of techniques for color traveling matte composite cinematography and another in 1994 for the conception and development of the Ultimatte electronic bluescreen compositing process for motion pictures. He also received a Medal of Commendation in 1992 and the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, an Oscar statuette, in 1993…every greenscreen or bluescreen shot in a vast number of films (including every recent blockbuster fantasy pic) employs variants of Vlahos’ original techniques."Template:Cite magazine</ref> and an Emmy Award<ref name="Nelson20130220"/>
Michael Wilson	B.A. 1936<ref>"Michael Wilson was born in McAlester, OK, July 1, 1914. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1936 with a BA in Philosophy."{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || screenwriter, recipient of two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay ( for the 1951 film A Place in the Sun<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai<ref>""Mike Wilson, he's the one," Mr. Lean says today. "Thank goodness he's got the Oscar at last!""Template:Cite news</ref>); nominated for the Academy Award for three other films (for the 1953 film 5 Fingers,<ref>"For their work on 5 Fingers, Mankiewicz received an Academy Award nomination for Best Direction, and Wilson received an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay. The film, which garnered excellent reviews, was named one of the ten best films of 1952 by NYT and FD."{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> the 1956 Academy Award-nominated film Friendly Persuasion,<ref>"Though uncredited due to his status as a blacklistee, Michael Wilson wrote the screenplay for Friendly Persuasion–and even won an Oscar nomination" Template:Cite news</ref> and the Academy Award winning 1962 Best Picture film Lawrence of Arabia<ref>"An illuminating, intelligent script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson, based in part on Lawrence's wartime recollections,…." Template:Cite news</ref><ref>"At the time of the film's release, Michael Wilson, who was blacklisted in the 1950s, did not receive screen credit for co-writing the screenplay with Robert Bolt. However, his credit was restored by the WGA in 1978, and in 1995, he was granted an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Lawrence of Arabia, an honor that initially had been bestowed solely on Bolt. In video versions of the film, Wilson and Bolt are both credited with the screenplay."Template:Cite news</ref>); also co–screenwriter for the 1968 Academy Award winning film Planet of the Apes<ref>"Scripted by Rod Serling and Michael Wilson (a former blacklistee who previously adapted another Pierre Boulle novel, Bridge on the River Kwai), Planet of the Apes has gone on to be an all-time sci-fi (and/or camp) classic. It won a special Academy Award for John Chambers's convincing (and, from all accounts, excruciatingly uncomfortable) simian makeup." Template:Cite news</ref><ref>"The team named the James Franco character in Rise Will Rodman as a tribute to Serling, whose first name was Rodman, and co-writer Michael Wilson, Jaffa added."Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Nominees

Name	Degree(s)	Notability
Adam Duritz	(attended)	lead singer-songwriter of Counting Crows, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Shrek 2 at the 77th Academy Awards
Jon H. Else	B.A. 1968	Prix Italia recipient (The Day After Trinity), recipient of four Emmy Awards,<ref name="Public Broadcasting System">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> nominated twice for the Academy Award (for the documentaries The Day After Trinity and Arthur and Lillie), cinematographer on the Academy Award–winning Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, 1999 winner of the Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker's Trophy, MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow, professor of journalism at UC Berkeley
Dan Krauss	M.A. Journalism 2004	nominated twice for Best Documentary Short Subject (for The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club and Extremis)<ref name="20170124Telvick">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Melissa Mathison	B.A.	screenwriter, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the Steven Spielberg film E.T. the Extra–Terrestrial; known also for the Francis Ford Coppola film The Black Stallion and the Martin Scorsese film Kundun<ref>"Mathison graduated from UC Berkeley before breaking into Hollywood in 1979 with The Black Stallion, an adaptation of the classic children’s novel about a boy who tames a wild Arabian horse."Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Daphne Matziaraki	M.A. Journalism 2016	nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject (4.1 Miles)<ref name="20170124Telvick"/>
David Peoples	BA English<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	screenwriter (the Ridley Scott film Blade Runner and the Terry Gilliam film 12 Monkeys), nominated for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay for the Clint Eastwood film Unforgiven (which did win the Academy Award for Best Picture); collaborator with Jon Else (BA 1968) on the Academy Award-winning documentary Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? and the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Day After Trinity<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
James Schamus	BA, MA, PhD<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	screenwriter, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Original Song for the Ang Lee movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; producer; co-founder and inaugural CEO of movie studio Focus Features<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Pulitzer Prize

Name	Degree(s)	Award year	Award category	Additional notability
Darrin Bell	B.A. 1999	2019<ref name="Hickey20190418">Template:Cite news</ref>	Editorial Cartooning
Alexandra Berzon	M.A. 2006	2009<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	Public Service
		2019<ref name="Hickey20190418"/>	National Reporting
Rube Goldberg	B.S. 1904	1948<ref name="UC Berkeley College of Engineering">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Editorial Cartooning	cartoonist; namesake of "Rube Goldberg device"
William Randolph Hearst Jr.	Attended	1956<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	International Reporting
Marguerite Higgins	B.A. 1941	1951	International Reporting	journalist; honored on a commemorative postal stamp issued by the United States Post Office<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Stephen Hobbs	M.A. 2014	2019<ref name="Hickey20190418" />	Public Service
Sidney Howard	B.A. 1915	1925<ref name="Britannica_SidneyHoward"/>	Drama (for They Knew What They Wanted)	recipient of the 1940 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Gone with the Wind<ref name="Britannica_SidneyHoward"/>
Leon Litwack	B.A.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> 1951, PhD 1958	1980<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	History (for his book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery)	professor emeritus of history at UC Berkeley<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
T. Christian Miller	B.A. 1992	2016<ref name="20160419Platten">Template:Cite news</ref><ref> Template:Cite news</ref>	Explanatory Reporting	lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Sonia Nazario	M.A. 1988	2003<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Feature Writing	journalist at the Los Angeles Times
Viet Thanh Nguyen	B.A. 1992, PhD 1997	2016<ref>Carolyn Kellog, Viet Thanh Nguyen wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for 'The Sympathizer', http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-viet-thanh-nguyen-pulitzer-prize-fiction-sympathizer-20160418-story.html</ref>	Fiction for his novel The Sympathizer	Novelist
Matt Richtel	B.A. 1989	2010<ref name="Matt Richtel">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	National Reporting	co–author of the comic strip Rudy Park under the pen name "Theron Heir"<ref name="topics.nytimes.com">Template:Cite news</ref>
Robert Penn Warren	M.A. 1927	1946	Fiction for All the King's Men	All the King's Men (1946) was later made into a movie of the same name which won three Academy Awards.<ref name="RPWarrent_BiographyChannel">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		1953	Poetry
		1979	Poetry
Greg Winter	M.A. Journalism 2000	2015<ref name="20150423UCBerkeleyGraduateSchoolOfJournalism">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	International Reporting

Emmy Award

Name	Degree(s)	Notability
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II	B.A. Architecture 2008	actor, Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series (2020<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>)
Kathy Baker	B.A. 1977	three-time recipient of the Emmy Award, actress (Picket Fences (1992–1996); The Right Stuff (1983), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Cider House Rules (1999), Cold Mountain (2003)
Christine Chen	BA 1990	journalist, former news Anchor for KSTW and KCPQ–TV (both in Seattle, Washington), recipient of two Emmy Awards (1996 and 2002<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>); principal of marketing communications consulting company Chen Communications
Liz Claman	B.A. 1985	journalist, current Fox Business anchor (Countdown to the Closing Bell), former CNBC Morning Call co–anchor,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> recipient of two Emmy Awards for broadcast production and journalism<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Jon H. Else	B.A. 1968	Prix Italia recipient (The Day After Trinity), recipient of four Emmy Awards,<ref name="Public Broadcasting System"/> nominated twice for the Academy Award, 1999 winner of the Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker's Trophy, MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow, cinematographer on the Academy Award–winning Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, professor of journalism at UC Berkeley
Jonathan Jones	MA 2005	2015 Emmy Award in Outstanding Long Form Investigative Journalism, 2015 Emmy Award in Outstanding Research<ref name="George20151006">Template:Cite news</ref>
Elisabeth Leamy	BA	Consumer Correspondent for ABC's Good Morning America, recipient of 13 Emmy Awards in broadcast journalism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Andrew Schneider	B.A. 1973	screenwriter and executive producer, recipient of two Emmy Awards (for Northern Exposure and The Sopranos)<ref>"Andrew Schneider is executive producer and co-showrunner of the new NBC series 'Chicago Med,' from Wolf Films and Universal Television. Schneider received a B.A. in Russian literature from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as a translator before becoming a writer and producer."{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Leroy Sievers	B.A.<ref name="ABCNews_Sievers_2008_08_16"/>	news journalist, executive producer of news program Nightline, recipient of 12 national news Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and two Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards<ref name="ABCNews_Sievers_2008_08_16">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Kristen Sze	B.A.	journalist, TV news anchor for KGO–TV (in the San Francisco Bay area), former New York correspondent for Extra, recipient of two Emmy Awards for broadcast journalism<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Jon F. Vein	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || Chief Operating Officer of Film Roman; producer; 2001 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animation for The Simpsons;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> co-founder and CEO of MarketShare (acquired for $450 million by Neustar<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>)
Will Vinton	B.A. Architecture 1970<ref name="Sandomir20181009"/>	pioneer of Claymation® (clay animation),<ref name="Lieber20000331"/> co–recipient of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1974 (Closed Mondays),<ref name="Lieber20000331"/> namesake and founder of Will Vinton Studios (known for The California Raisins and the Domino's Pizza Noid), recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animation programs (A Claymation Christmas Celebration and A Claymation Easter) (also listed in Academy Awards section)
Petro Vlahos	BS Eng 1941<ref name="Nelson20130220"/>	pioneer<ref name="Nelson20130220"/><ref name="Kelion20130214"/> in traveling matte (blue–screen and green–screen) visual effects technology (used in films such as Ben–Hur, Mary Poppins, and the first Star Wars trilogy<ref name="Kelion20130214"/>), recipient of five special Academy Awards<ref name="VarietyStaff2013REVLAHOS"/> and an Emmy Award<ref name="Nelson20130220"/> (also listed in Academy Awards section)

Fields Medal

Name	Degree(s)	Fields Medal Award year	Additional notability
Michael Freedman	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| 1986 || Berkeley math lecturer (1973–1975)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
William Thurston	Ph.D. 1972<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || 1982 || Berkeley professor of mathematics (1991–1996)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Shing–Tung Yau (Chinese: 丘成桐)	Ph.D. 1971<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	1982	National Medal of Science in 1997

Wolf Prize

Name	Degree(s)	Award year	Award field	Wolf Prize citation	Additional notability
Paul Alivisatos	Ph.D. 1986	2012<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Chemistry	for the development of "the colloidal inorganic nanocrystal as a building block of nanoscience making fundamental contributions to controlling the synthesis of these particles, to measuring and understanding their physical properties, and to utilizing their unique properties for applications ranging from light generation and harvesting to biological imaging"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Carolyn R. Bertozzi	Ph.D. 1993	2022<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Chemistry	for "seminal contributions to understanding the chemistry of cellular communication and inventing chemical methodologies to study the role of carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins in such biological processes"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||
Henry Eyring	Ph.D. 1927	1980	Chemistry	"for his development of absolute rate theory and its imaginative applications to chemical and physical processes"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
George Feher	B.S. 1950, M.S. 1951, Ph.D. 1954<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2006/2007<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Chemistry	"for the ingenious structural discoveries of the ribosomal machinery of peptide–bond formation and the light–driven primary processes in photosynthesis"<ref name="Chemistry">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	inventor<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> of electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR); professor at the University of California, San Diego
Herbert S. Gutowsky	M.S. 1946<ref name="dep chem">Template:Cite news</ref>	1983/1984	Chemistry	"for his pioneering work in the development and applications of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in chemistry<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Bertrand Halperin	Ph.D. 1965<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2002/2003	Physics	"for key insights into the broad range of condensed matter physics... on two– dimensional melting, disordered systems and strongly interacting electrons"<ref name="wolffundil">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University
John F. Hartwig	PhD 1990	2019<ref name="DWylde20190118">Template:Cite news</ref>	Chemistry	"for the development of efficient transition-metal catalysts that have revolutionized drug manufacturing, leading to breakthroughs in molecule and synthetics design"<ref name="WolfFoundation20190116">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley (2011–present)<ref name="DWylde20190118"/>
Elizabeth Neufeld	PhD 1956	1988	Medicine	"for the biochemical elucidation of lysosomal storage diseases and the resulting contributions to biology, pathology, prenatal diagnosis, and therapeutics"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>
George C. Pimentel	Ph.D. 1949<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	1982	Chemistry	for the "development of matrix isolation spectroscopy and for the discovery of photodissociation lasers and chemical lasers"<ref name="Chemistry"/>	professor at UC Berkeley (1949–1989); inventor of the chemical laser
Gary Ruvkun	B.A. Biophysics 1973<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2014	Medicine	"for the discovery of the micro–RNA molecules that play a key role in controlling gene expression in natural processes and disease development"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Gabor A. Somorjai	Ph.D. 1960<ref name="SOMORJAI">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	1998	Chemistry	for "outstanding contributions to the field of the surface science in general, and for their elucidation of fundamental mechanisms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions at single crystal surfaces in particular"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>	professor of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley (1964–present)
Chien-Shiung Wu	Ph.D. 1940<ref name="BobNelson_19970221">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1978	Physics	"for her explorations of the weak interaction, helping establish the precise form and the non–conservation of parity for this natural force ";<ref name="wolffundil"/> first female president of the American Physical Society<ref name="BobNelson_19970221"/>	professor of physics at Columbia University (1940–1980)
Shing-Tung Yau	Ph.D. 1971<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	2010	Mathematics	"for his work in geometric analysis that has had a profound and dramatic impact on many areas of geometry and physics"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> (also listed in Fields Medal)	professor of mathematics at Harvard University; Fields Medal laureate; recipient of the Wolf Prize (Mathematics, 2010)
David Zilberman	PhD 1979	2019<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	Agriculture	"for developing economic models that address fundamental issues in agriculture, economics and policymaking"<ref name="WolfFoundation20190116"/>	professor (holder of the Robinson Chair) in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department at UC Berkeley (1979–present)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

National Humanities Medal

Name	Degree(s)	Award year	National Humanities Medal citation	Additional notability
Stephen Balch	MA 1967, PhD 1972	2007	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	founder of the National Association of Scholars, founder of the American Academy for Liberal Education, founding member and trustee of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, founder of the Study of Western Civilization
Joan Didion	BA 1956	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	"her mastery of style in writing. Exploring the culture around us and exposing the depths of sorrow, Ms. Didion has produced works of startling honesty and fierce intellect, rendered personal stories universal, and illuminated the seemingly peripheral details that are central to our lives"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	writer, author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), The White Album (1979), and The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
Maxine Hong Kingston	B.A. 1962	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	"her contributions as a writer. Her novels and non–fiction have examined how the past influences our present, and her voice has strengthened our understanding of Asian American identity, helping shape our national conversation about culture, gender, and race"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	author; Senior Lecturer at UC Berkeley; recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 2013<ref name="NEAMOAKingston">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Ramón Eduardo Ruiz	PhD 1954	1998<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>		Professor of History (specializing in Mexico and Latin America) at the University of California, San Diego
Henry Snyder	BA, MA, PhD	2007	"for visionary leadership in bridging the worlds of scholarship and technology"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Professor Emeritus of History (specializing in Britain) at the University of California, Riverside; 2009 Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire medal (bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Kevin Starr	M.L.S. 1974	2006<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||	Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Professor of History (specializing in California) at the University of Southern California
Alice Waters	B.A. 1967	2015<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	for "celebrating the bond between the ethical and the edible. As a chef, author, and advocate, Ms. Waters champions a holistic approach to eating and health and celebrates integrating gardening, cooking, and education, sparking inspiration in a new generation"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	celebrity chef, founder of restaurant Chez Panisse, originator of California cuisine; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; recipient of five James Beard Foundation Awards (1984 Who's Who of Food & Beverage, 1997 Fruits & Vegetables, 1992 Outstanding Chef, 1992 Outstanding Restaurant, 1997 Humanitarian of the Year, 2004 Lifetime Achievement)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>

National Medal of Science

Name	Degree(s)	Award year	National Medal of Science citation	Additional notability
Philip Abelson	PhD 1939	1987	"for his path–breaking contributions in radiochemistry, physics, geophysics, biophysics, and biochemistry and for his vigorous and penetrating counsel on national matters involving science and technology"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	physicist and science writer; co–discoverer of neptunium
Berni Alder	BS 1947, MS 1948	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	"for establishing powerful computer methods useful for molecular dynamics simulations, conceiving and executing experimental shock–wave simulations to obtain properties of fluids and solids at very high pressures, and developing Monte Carlo methods for calculating the properties of matter from first principles, all of which contributed to major achievements in the science of condensed matter"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Paul Alivisatos	PhD 1986	2014	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	also listed in §Wolf Prize
Daniel I. Arnon	BS 1932, PhD 1936<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	1973<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	"for fundamental research into the mechanism of green plant utilization of light to produce chemical energy and oxygen and for contributions to our understanding of plant nutrition"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	professor of cell physiology at UC Berkeley specializing in photosynthesis
John N. Bahcall	B.S. 1956	1998<ref name="Times2005_09_01"/>	"for his fundamental contributions to areas of modern astrophysics ranging from solar neutrino physics to the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy to cosmology, and for his leadership of the astronomical community, especially his tireless advocacy of the Hubble Space Telescope"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	astrophysicist, best known<ref name="Times2005_09_01">Template:Cite news</ref> for his work on the Standard Solar Model and the Hubble Space Telescope; recipient of the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal<ref name="Times2005_09_01"/> in 1992, co–winner of the Fermi award in 2003
John Isaiah Brauman	PhD 1963	2002	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
John W. Cahn	Ph.D. 1953	1998	"for his pioneering work on thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transitions and diffusion, on interfacial phenomena, and for his contributions to the understanding of periodic and quasi–periodic structures"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	materials scientist
Thomas Cech	PhD 1975	1995	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (also listed in §Nobel laureates)
Brent Dalrymple	PhD 1963	2003	"for his pioneering work in determining the geomagnetic polarity reversal timescale; a discovery that led to the theory of plate tectonics"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
George Dantzig	PhD 1946<ref name = "SR06">Richard W. Cottle, B. Curtis Eaves and Michael A. Saunders (2006). "Memorial Resolution: George Bernard Dantzig". Stanford Report, June 7, 2006.</ref>	1975	"for inventing linear programming and discovering methods that led to wide–scale scientific and technical applications to important problems in logistics, scheduling, and network optimization, and to the use of computers in making efficient use of the mathematical theory"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	creator of the simplex algorithm; Professor Emeritus of Transportation Sciences and Professor of Operations Research and of Computer Science at Stanford University
Henry Eyring	Ph.D. 1927	1966	"for contributions to our understanding of the structure and properties of matter, especially for his creation of absolute rate theory, one of the sharpest tools in the study of rates of chemical reaction"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	namesake of the Eyring equation; Professor of Chemistry (Princeton University), dean of the University of Utah graduate school
Herbert S. Gutowsky	MS 1946<ref name="dep chem"/>	1976	"in recognition of pioneering studies in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Daniel E. Koshland Jr.	BA 1941<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1990	"for profoundly influencing the understanding of how proteins function through his induced–fit model of enzyme actrion. His incisive analysis of bacterial chemotaxis has led to a deeper understanding of the molecular basis of memory and adaptation"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	professor of biochemistry at UC Berkeley
Willis Lamb	BS 1934. PhD 1938	2000	citation	CitationClass=web }} </ref>	also listed in §Nobel laureates
Yuan T. Lee	PhD 1965	1986	citation	CitationClass=web }} </ref>	Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley; also listed in §Nobel laureates
Tung-Yen Lin	M.S. 1933	1986	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Professor of Civil Engineering, bridge builder, pioneering researcher and practitioner of prestressed concrete, designed Moscone Center
Lynn Margulis	PhD 1963	1999	citation	CitationClass=web }} </ref>	botanist known for endosymbiosis theory; Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; first wife of Carl Sagan
Elizabeth Neufeld	PhD 1956	1994	"for her contributions to the understanding of the lysosomal storage diseases, demonstrating the strong linkage between basic and applied scientific investigation"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	researcher on the relationship of genetics to metabolic disease, professor and chair of biological chemistry at UCLA; also listed in §Wolf Prize)
Albert Overhauser	BS 1948, PhD 1951<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> || 1994|| "for his fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of solids, to theoretical physics, and for the impact of his technological advances"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }} </ref>	professor at Purdue University (1973–2011)
George C. Pimentel	Ph.D. 1949	1983	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	inventor of the chemical laser; Director, Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics at UC Berkeley; also listed in §Wolf Prize
Kenneth Pitzer	PhD 1937	1974	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	lecturer and professor (1935–1964 and 1971–1984) and dean (1951–1960) of the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Peter H. Raven	BS 1957	2000	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Director and Engelmann Professor of Botany at Missouri Botanical Garden at Washington University in St. Louis
Roger Revelle	PhD 1936	1990	citation	CitationClass=web }} </ref>	researcher of global warming theory; Director Emeritus Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy Emeritus, Harvard University
Frederick Rossini	PhD 1928	1976	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	professor of chemical thermodynamics at Rice University
Glenn T. Seaborg	PhD 1937	1991	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	also listed in §Nobel laureates
Susan Solomon	M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1981	2000	"for key scientific insights in explaining the cause of the Antarctic Ozone hole and for advancing the understanding of the global ozone layer; for changing the direction of ozone research through her findings; and for exemplary service to worldwide public policy decisions and to the American public"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Senior Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Gabor A. Somorjai	Ph.D. 1960<ref name="SOMORJAI"/>	2002	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	professor of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley (1964–present); also listed in Wolf Prize section
Earl Reece Stadtman	BS 1942<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||1979 ||"for seminal contributions to understanding of the energy metabolism of anaerobic bacteria and for elucidation of major mechanisms whereby the rates of metabolic processes are finely matched to the requirements of the living cell"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Chief of the Laboratory of Biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health
Peter J. Stang	Ph.D. 1966	2010	"for his creative contributions to the development of organic supramolecular chemistry and for his outstanding and unique record of public service"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	professor of chemistry at the University of Utah
JoAnne Stubbe	PhD 1971	2008<ref name="2009_NationalMedalOfScience_Corten"/>	"for her ground–breaking experiments establishing the mechanisms of ribonucleotide reductases, polyester synthases, and natural product DNA cleavers compelling demonstrations of the power of chemical investigations to solve problems in biology"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Henry Taube	PhD 1940	1976	citation	CitationClass=web }} </ref>	also listed in §Nobel laureates
Harold Urey	PhD 1923	1964	citation	CitationClass=web }} </ref>	physical chemist on isotopes; also listed in §Nobel laureates
John Roy Whinnery	BS EE 1937 PhD 1948	1992	"for his research contributions to microwaves, lasers, and quantum electronics; for his excellence as a teacher and author; and for his extensive services to government and professional organizations"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }} </ref>	lecturer and professor (1946–2007) and dean (1959–1963) of the EECS Department at UC Berkeley<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Robert R. Wilson	BA 1936, PhD 1940<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> || 1973 || for "unusual ingenuity in designing experiments to explore the fundamental particles of matter and in designing and constructing the machines to produce the particles, culminating in the world's most powerful particle accelerator";<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	recipient of the 1984 Enrico Fermi Award for "his outstanding contributions to physics and particle accelerator designs and construction. He was the creator and principal designer of the Fermi National Laboratory and what is, at present, the highest energy accelerator in the world. His contributions have always been characterized by the greatest ingenuity and innovation and accomplished with grace and style"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
David J. Wineland	BS 1965, PhD 1970	2007	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || also listed in §Nobel laureates
Chien-Shiung Wu	PhD 1940	1975	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	the "Chinese Madam Curie"<ref name="chiang">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Shing-Tung Yau	Ph.D. 1971	1997	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	mathematician, recipient of the Fields Medal in 1982

National Medal of Technology

Name	Degree(s)	Award year	National Medal of Technology citation	Additional notability
Frances H. Arnold	PhD 1985<ref name="Sanders20181003"/>	2011	"for pioneering research on biofuels and chemicals that could lead to the replacement of pollution-generating materials"<ref name="nat med1"/>	also listed in §Nobel laureates
Glen Culler	BA Math 1951	1999	"for pioneering innovations in multiple branches of computing, including early efforts in digital speech processing, invention of the first on–line system for interactive graphical mathematics computing and pioneering work on the ARPAnet"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Doug Engelbart	B. Eng. 1952, Ph.D. 1965	2000	"for creating the foundations of personal computing including continuous, real–time interaction based on cathode–ray tube displays and the mouse, hypertext linking, text editing, on–line journals, shared–screen teleconferencing, and remote collaborative work. More than any other person, he created the personal computing component of the computer revolution"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	also listed in §Turing Award laureates
Arthur Gossard	PhD<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || 2014 || "for innovation, development, and application of artificially structured quantum materials critical to ultrahigh performance semiconductor device technology used in today's digital infrastructure"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Chenming Hu	MS 1970, PhD 1973<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| 2014 || "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"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	professor emeritus of EECS at UC Berkeley<ref> Template:Cite news </ref> co-founder and chairman of Celestry Design Technologies (acquired by Cadence Design Systems for over $100 million<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>); 2013 Phil Kaufman Award laureate
Gordon Moore	B.S. 1950	1990	"for his seminal leadership in bringing American industry the two major postwar innovations in microelectronics – large–scale integrated memory and the microprocessor – that have fueled the information revolution"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	co-founder of NASDAQ–100 company Intel, namesake and originator of Moore's Law; co-founder of NASDAQ–100 semiconductor manufacturing company Intel
Ken Thompson	B.S. EE 1965, M.S. EE 1966	1998	for the "invention of the UNIX® operating system and the C programming language, which together have led to enormous growth of an entire industry, thereby enhancing American leadership in the Information Age"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	co-creator of the Unix operating system; also listed in §Turing Award laureates
Steve Wozniak	(class of 1976, BS EECS 1986)	1985	for the "development and introduction of the personal computer which has sparked the birth of a new industry extending the power of the computer to individual users"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	co-founder of NASDAQ–100 computer manufacturing company Apple Inc.; also listed in §Founders and co-founders

Breakthrough Prize

Name	Degree(s)	Award year	Award field	Breakthrough Prize citation	Additional notability
Nima Arkani-Hamed	PhD 1997	2012	Physics	"for original approaches to outstanding problems in particle physics, including the proposal of large extra dimensions, new theories for the Higgs boson, novel realizations of supersymmetry, theories for dark matter, and the exploration of new mathematical structures in gauge theory scattering amplitudes"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
David Baker	PhD 1989	2021	Life Sciences	"for developing a technology that allowed the design of proteins never seen before in nature, including novel proteins that have the potential for therapeutic intervention in human diseases"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	biochemist, head of the Institute for Protein Design, professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington<ref name="Nima Arkani-Hamed"/>
Harry F. Noller	BS 1960 Biochemistry<ref name="201312Lee">Template:Cite journal</ref>	2017	Life Sciences	"for discovering the centrality of RNA in forming the active centers of the ribosome, the fundamental machinery of protein synthesis in all cells, thereby connecting modern biology to the origin of life and also explaining how many natural antibiotics disrupt protein synthesis"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	biochemist, director of the Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA at the University of California, Santa Cruz<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Saul Perlmutter	PhD Physics 1986	2015	Physics	"for the most unexpected discovery that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating, rather than slowing as had been long assumed"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	also listed in §Nobel laureates
Joseph Polchinski	PhD 1980	2017	Physics	"for transformative advances in quantum field theory, string theory, and quantum gravity"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Gary Ruvkun	BA Biophysics 1971	2015	Life Sciences	"for discovering a new world of genetic regulation by microRNAs, a class of tiny RNA molecules that inhibit translation or destabilize complementary mRNA targets"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	also listed in §Wolf Prize
Andrew Strominger	MA 1979	2012	Physics	"for transformative advances in quantum field theory, string theory, and quantum gravity"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Gödel Prize

Name	Degree(s)	Award year	Gödel Prize citation	Additional notability
Sanjeev Arora	Ph.D. 1994	2001	"for the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation"<ref name="Parberry20010430">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	professor of computer science at Princeton University
		2010	for the "discovery of a polynomial–time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the Euclidean Travelling Salesman Problem (ETSP)")<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Ronald Fagin	PhD Math 1973<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2014	"for Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware"<ref name="ACMGödelPrize2014">Template:Cite news</ref>	IBM Fellow at IBM Research–Almaden
Matthew K. Franklin	MA Math 1985	2013	"established the field of pairing–based cryptography by supplying a precise definition of the security of this approach, and providing compelling new applications for it"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	professor of computer science at UC Davis
Shafi Goldwasser	MS 1981, Ph.D. 1983	1993	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science; also listed in Turing Award laureates section
		2001	"for the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation"<ref name="Parberry20010430"/>
Silvio Micali	Ph.D. 1982	1993	"for the development of interactive proof systems"<ref name="Parberry19930324"/>	also listed in Turing Award laureates section
Rajeev Motwani	Ph.D. 1988	2001	"for the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation"<ref name="Parberry20010430"/>	former professor of computer science at Stanford University; co–author of a research paper on the PageRank algorithm (with Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Terry Winograd) which became the basis of Google<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Moni Naor	PhD 1989 CS<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2014	for Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware<ref name="ACMGödelPrize2014"/>	professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science (in Israel)
Noam Nisan	PhD 1988<ref>"Two Turing Awards (Richard Karp, Manuel Blum) and four ACM Ph.D. Dissertation Awards (Eric Bach, Noam Nisan, Madhu Sudan, and Sanjeev Arora) are just a few of the honors garnered by the research in theoretical computer science at Berkeley. "Template:Cite news</ref><ref>"This thesis describes two methods of constructing pseudorandom generators from hard problems."{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2014	for laying the foundations of algorithmic game theory<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Madhu Sudan	Ph.D. 1992	2001	"for the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation"<ref name="Parberry20010430"/>	professor of computer science at MIT

MacArthur Fellowship

The MacArthur Fellowship is also known as the "Genius Grant"<ref name="Dreifus20010123"/><ref name="Meckler20120111"/><ref name="Cromie20000615"/> or "Genius Award".<ref name="ChicagoChronicle19980611"/><ref name="Sanders19910722"/>

Name	Degree(s)	Award year	Additional notability
Joan Abrahamson	J.D.	1985<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	president of the Jefferson Institute (a public policy think-tank)
Patrick Awuah	M.B.A. 1999	2015<ref name="HassNow20150929">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || founder of Ashesi University in Ghana
Carolyn Bertozzi	Ph.D. 1993	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley
Peter J. Bickel	Ph.D. 1963	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| professor of statistics at UC Berkeley
Tami Bond	M.S. 1995	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	environmental engineer; professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Jennifer Carlson	M.A. 2008, Ph.D. 2013	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| sociologist, associate professor at the University of Arizona
Shawn Carlson	B.S. 1981	1999<ref name="Dreifus20010123">"Just as he is about to go broke, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation comes to the rescue with a 'genius grant'…"Template:Cite news</ref>	co-founder of Society for Amateur Scientists, former columnist of "The Amateur Scientist" in Scientific American; "Head Cheese" of the LabRats Science Education Project (a "Boy Scouts" for young scientists)
John Carlstrom	Ph.D. 1988	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| professor of astrophysics at the University of Chicago
Stanley Cavell	B.A. 1947	1992<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	philosopher, Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus at Harvard University
Sandy Close	B.A. 1964	1995<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	journalist, executive director of the Bay Area Institute/Pacific News Service and New America Media
Eric Coleman	Master of Public Health 1991	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || geriatrician, professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine
Maria Crawford	Ph.D. 1964	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| professor emeritus of geology at Bryn Mawr College
William Dichtel	Ph.D. Chemistry 2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University; pioneer<ref name="MacArthurREDichtel"/> of covalent organic frameworks
Corinne Dufka	M.A. social welfare 1984	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| human rights investigator, senior researcher in the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch
Michael Elowitz	B.A. physics 1992	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || molecular biologist, professor at the California Institute of Technology; creator of the repressilator (artificial genetic circuit in synthetic biology)
Jon H. Else	B.A. 1968	1988<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	Prix Italia recipient (The Day After Trinity), recipient of four Emmy Awards,<ref name="Public Broadcasting System"/> nominated twice for the Academy Award, 1999 winner of the Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker's Trophy, cinematographer on the Academy Award–winning Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, professor of journalism at UC Berkeley (also listed in Emmy Awards section)
Sharon Emerson	B.A. 1966	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| research professor emeritus at the University of Utah
Deborah Estrin	BS EECS 1980	2018<ref name="Chung20181008">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="PublicAffairsMacArthur20181005">Template:Cite news</ref>	associate dean and professor of computer science at Cornell University; pioneer in computer network routing
P. Gabrielle Foreman	Ph.D. 1992	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and professor of African American Studies and History at Pennsylvania State University
Danna Freedman	Ph.D. 2009	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| Frederick George Keyes Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Friedan	Ph.D. 1980	1987<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	physicist in string theory and condensed matter physics, professor of physics at Rutgers University
Margaret J. Geller	B.A. physics 1970	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||astrophysicist at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Peter Gleick	M.S., Ph.D. hydro–climatology	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| co-founder of the Pacific Institute, researcher on fresh water resources
David B. Goldstein	Ph.D. physics	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| energy conservation specialist, co–director of the Energy Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council
Linda Griffith	Ph.D. 1988	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| professor of bioengineering at MIT
David Gross	Ph.D. physics 1966	1987<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	Nobel laureate (Physics, 2004) (also listed in Nobel laureates section)
Eva Harris	Ph.D. 1993	1997<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley; researcher of dengue fever
David Hawkins	Ph.D. 1940	1981<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	professor, Manhattan Project researcher, known for his proof, along with Herbert A. Simon, of the Hawkins-Simons theorem
Peter J. Hayes	Ph.D. 1989	2000<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	energy policy activist, Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability
Walter Hood	M.Arch., M.L.A. 1989	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	professor, former chair of Landscape Architecture, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley
Vijay Iyer	Ph.D. 1998	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| jazz pianist and composer
Daniel Hunt Janzen	Ph.D. 1965	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || ecologist and conservationist; professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania, technical advisor for restoration project Area de Conservación Guanacaste World Heritage Site in Costa Rica
Thomas C. Joe	B.A. 1958, M.A. 1961	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || social policy analyst, special assistant to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1969–73), advisor to White House Domestic Policy Council (1975–79), member of National Council of the Handicapped (1982)
Daniel Jurafsky	B.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1992	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| computer scientist and linguist; professor of linguistics and computer science at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Peter Kenmore	Ph.D. 1980	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || entomologist and member of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Nancy Kopell	M.A., Ph.D. 1967	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| mathematician, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University, Co–Director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology
Priti Krishtel	B.A. 1999	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| lawyer, co-founder and co-executive director of the Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge
Josh Kun	Ph.D. 1999	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	musicologist
Michael C. Malin	B.A. (physics) 1967	1987<ref name="Caltech2003_DistinguishedAlumniAwards">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	astronomer, principal investigator for the camera on Mars Global Surveyor,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> founder and CEO of Malin Space Science Systems, recipient of a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 2002,<ref name="Caltech2003_DistinguishedAlumniAwards"/> recipient of the 2005 Carl Sagan Memorial Award<ref name="Caltech2003_DistinguishedAlumniAwards"/>
Yoky Matsuoka	B.S. 1993	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	neuro-robotics researcher, Vice President of Technology at Tony Fadell "smart–thermostat" company Nest Labs<ref>"Yoky Matsuoka, Nest’s vice president for technology, right, was the former head of innovation at Google. Ms. Matsuoka is considered a neurorobotics pioneer. "Template:Cite news</ref> when it was acquired by Google for $3.2 billion;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> founding member of Google X
Joshua Miele	B.A. 1992, Ph.D. 2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| adaptive technology designer at Amazon Lab126
David R. Montgomery	Ph.D. 1991	2008<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	geomorphologist, Professor of Earth and Space Science at the University of Washington, Seattle; researcher on the role of topsoil in human civilization, recipient of the 2008 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction for Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
Fred Moten	M.A., Ph.D.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| cultural theorist, poet, Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of California, Riverside
Richard A. Muller	Ph.D.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| professor of Physics at UC Berkeley, senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Cecilia Muñoz	M.A. 1986	2000<ref name="Meckler20120111">"The daughter of Bolivian immigrants, Ms. Muñoz was awarded a MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant' in 2000 …"Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	civil rights and immigration activist; director of the United States Domestic Policy Council (2012–present)
Margaret Murnane	Ph.D. 1989	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	professor of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, specialist in pulsed–operation lasers
Viet Thanh Nguyen	B.A. 1992, Ph.D. 1997	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || author (also listed in §Pulitzer Prize)
John Novembre	Ph.D. 2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || computational biologist and professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago
Trevor Paglen	B.A. 1998, Ph.D. 2008	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| artist, author, and geographer specializing in mass surveillance and data collection
Taylor Perron	Ph.D. 2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| Professor of Geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Margie Profet	B.A. physics 1985	1993<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	researcher in evolutionary biology
Peter H. Raven	B.S. 1957	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>|| botanist and environmentalist, President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden (also listed in National Medal of Science)
Ed Roberts	B.A. 1964, M.A. 1966	1984<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	activist in the disability rights movement (Independent Living)
Julia Hall Bowman Robinson	B.A. mathematics 1940, Ph.D. 1948	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || professor (1976–1985) of mathematics at UC Berkeley, specializing in Hilbert's Tenth Problem; first woman president of the American Mathematical Society;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> namesake of the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Jay Rubenstein	Ph.D. 1997	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || medieval historian, professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Daniel P. Schrag	Ph.D. 1993	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University
John Henry Schwarz	Ph.D. 1966	1987<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	the "Schwarz" in the "Green–Schwarz mechanism" that started the first superstring revolution in superstring theory,<ref>"In a classic case of looking at what everyone else had seen, but thinking what no one else had thought, [Schwarz] recognized the problem particle as a graviton–a 'particle' of gravity. Suddenly, string theory wasn't just an ill-fitting theory of sub-nuclear interactions. Once it included gravity, it had the potential to become a theory of all the forces and particles in the universe."Template:Cite news</ref> Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Yuval Sharon	B.A. 2001	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || opera director and producer
Allan Sly	PhD 2009 Statistics	2018<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	faculty member at the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley (2011-2016);<ref name="PublicAffairsMacArthur20181005"/> current professor of mathematics at Princeton University
Dawn Song	Ph.D. 2002	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || professor in EECS at UC Berkeley specializing in computer security
Claire Tomlin	Ph.D. 1998	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || researcher in unmanned aerial vehicles, air traffic control, and modeling of biological processes; professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Department of Electrical Engineering, at Stanford University, where she is Director of the Hybrid Systems Laboratory; professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Gary Alfred Tomlinson	Ph.D. 1979	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	musicologist and cultural theorist, professor at Yale University, former Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Philip Treisman	Ph.D. 1985	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas, Austin; pioneer in the Emerging Scholars Program
Bret Wallach	B.A. 1964, M.A. 1966, Ph.D. in 1968	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	cultural geographer, professor at the University of Oklahoma
Robert Penn Warren	M.A. 1927	1981	novelist and poet, three–time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize<ref name="RPWarrent_BiographyChannel"/> (also listed in Pulitzer Prize section)
Robert H. Williams	Ph.D. 1967	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> || physicist, Senior Research Scientist at the Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton University
Allan Wilson	Ph.D. 1961	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || professor (1972–1991) of Biochemistry at UC Berkeley specializing in molecular approaches to understand biological evolution and to reconstruct phylogenies
Jay Wright	B.A. 1961	1986	poet<ref>After he returned, Wright enrolled in the University of California at Berkeley under the G.I. bill. He majored in comparative literature and graduated in only three years. Template:Cite book</ref>
Gene Luen Yang	BS CS 1995	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || cartoonist and graphic novelist; fifth National Ambassador for Young People's Literature<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Shing–Tung Yau	Ph.D. 1971	1984<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	mathematician (listed under Fields Medal section)
Xiaowei Zhuang	MS 1993, Ph.D. 1996	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || biophysicist, professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University

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See also

• List of University of California, Berkeley faculty
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