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Encyclopedia: University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. It is located in Berkeley, California, occupying about 200 acres on a wooded slope plus an additional 1000 acres (4 km²) of largely undeveloped land in the Berkeley Hills. The university offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines.

UC Berkeley was founded in 1868 in a merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College. Through the efforts of such leaders as Benjamin Ide Wheeler and Robert Gordon Sproul, it had, by the 1950s, established itself as a premier research university. Scientific discoveries made by Berkeley investigators include: the anti-proton, the Calvin cycle, and the isolation of the polio virus; UC Berkeley researchers also discovered the elements of plutonium, berkelium, lawrencium, californium, and seaborgium. Berkeley scientists played key roles in the development of the atomic and hydrogen bombs and research performed at the university has spawned other inventions such as the cyclotron, SETI@home, and BSD Unix. Berkeley faculty have a no less distinguished record in fields outside the sciences, having received Pulitzer Prizes, Nobel Prizes in literature and economics, and four Fields Medal winners in mathematics.

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How to say "University of California, Berkeley" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	柏克萊加州大學
	(Japanese)	カリフォルニア大学バークレー校
	(German)	University of California, Berkeley
	(Spanish)	Universidad de California, Berkeley
	(French)	Université de Californie à Berkeley
	(Italian)	Università della California (Berkeley)

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Dept of Plant & Microbial Biology at Berkeley

The Dept of Plant & Microbial Biology at Berkeley is a department at University of California Berkeley that conducts research and teaching in Plant and Microbial science...

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EECS

EECS is an abbreviation of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , used in universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley...

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Peter Marcuse

Peter Marcuse is the son of Herbert Marcuse. Currently a Professor at Columbia University, he received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in urban planning...

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Peter Mattis

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Bruce Ames

Bruce Ames is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI). He is inventor of the Ames test...

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Christopher Edley, Jr.

Christopher Edley, Jr. is the current dean of University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). He served as a professor at Harvard Law School. He went to Swarthmore College as an undergraduate...

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Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System

Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System , or NACHOS , is instructional software for teaching undergraduate, and potentially graduate, level operating systems courses. It was developed at the University of California, Berkeley and is used by numerous schools...

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Pei-Yuan Wei

Pei-Yuan Wei (魏培源) is a former undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley who created ViolaWWW, one of the first graphical web browsers. Pei-Yuan Wei was born in Taiwan...

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Phillip Johnson

Phillip Johnson may refer to: Phillip E. Johnson, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley Philip R. Johnson, an architect. Author of Training for evangelism : leaders's guide . 0802487939...

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Richard Wollheim

Richard Wollheim (d. November 4, 2003) was a British philosopher. He was the chairman of the Department of Philosophy of the University of California, Berkeley from 1998 to 2002. He attended Westminster School and then Balliol, Oxford...

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