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100 unusual facts about Berkeley


'69 Newport

The song "Hedgecore" is a song about the local pastime in Berkeley which involves diving into and destroying bushes.

1906 college football season

"I do not believe the present experiment in American college football can survive," said the President of the University of California, Jack Wheeler.

1950 Rose Bowl

The 1950 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played between Ohio State University and University of California at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

1958 California Golden Bears football team

The 1958 California Golden Bears football team represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1958 college football season.

1958 Iowa Hawkeyes football team

The Hawkeyes finished the season with a 7-1-1 record, as in 1957, but this year they would travel to Pasadena to play the Pacific Coast Conference champion California in the Rose Bowl.

2006 California Golden Bears football team

The 2006 California Golden Bears football team represented the University of California, Berkeley in the college football 2006–2007 season.

Cal played the next Saturday, October 7, for California's Homecoming weekend, against the undefeated #11 (in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll) Oregon Ducks, a team that was 4–0, and 1–0 in Pac-10 play.

2008 Emerald Bowl

The Miami Hurricanes of the ACC were matched against the California Golden Bears (based in nearby Berkeley, California) of the Pac-10, the first appearance by either team in the seven-year history of the Emerald Bowl.

Acharei Mot

Professor Jacob Milgrom, formerly of the University of California, Berkeley, taught that the evidence of the ethical impulse in the sacrificial system attained its zenith in Yom Kippur.

Adi Gevins

Much of her work has been done for the Pacifica Radio station KPFA in Berkeley, California, including "One Billion Seconds Later", which won the Ohio State Award and "Me and My Shadow", a documentary about Cointelpro's infiltration of the New Left.

Albert E. Carter

He taught school six years and then was graduated from the law department of the University of California, Berkeley in 1913.

Amir Bar-Lev

Amir Bar-Lev (born in 1972) is an American film director, producer and writer from Berkeley, California.

Andrew Sanger

Sanger also published a memoir or novel online through self-publisher Lulu.com, Love (2005), describing his life in Berkeley, California during the "Summer of Love" and travels during the hippy era, including the "hippie trail" to India.

Annalee Newitz

She graduated from Irvine High School, and in 1987 moved to Berkeley, California.

Antero Alli

Alli currently resides in Berkeley, California, where he conducts workshops and stages theatrical productions, some of which have been released as films.

Apprenticeship learning

Apprenticeship learning, or apprenticeship via inverse reinforcement learning (AIRP), is a concept in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, developed by Pieter Abbeel, Assistant Professor in Berkeley's EECS department, and Andrew Ng, Associate Professor in Stanford University's Computer Science Department.

Armstrong College

Armstrong College, formerly a private college in Berkeley, California, offering undergraduate and graduate programs in business and management; founded in 1914 and closed on June 11, 1986, located at 2222 Harold Way in the Ratcliff building (after Walter H. Ratcliff, Architect), a Berkeley landmark

Barbara Christian

Barbara Christian (b. December 12, 1943, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands; d. June 25, 2000 Berkeley, California) was an author and professor of African-American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

BeBe K'Roche

BeBe K' Roche was founded in 1973 by electric guitarist/singer-songwriter Tiik Pollet in Berkeley, California, while playing in a duo with bassist Peggy Mitchell.

Benedikt Löwe

Löwe received his BA in mathematics and philosophy at the University of Hamburg and continued his studies at the University of Tübingen, the University of Berlin and Berkeley.

Benson Mates

Benson Mates (May 19, 1919, Portland, Oregon – May 14, 2009, Berkeley, California) was an American philosopher, noted for his work in logic, the history of philosophy, and skepticism.

Berkeley sockets

Only in 1989, however, could UC Berkeley release versions of its operating system and networking library free from the licensing constraints of AT&T Corporation's proprietary Unix.

Brent Weinbach

He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and was formerly a Professional Jazz Pianist and Substitute Teacher.

Cadence SKILL

SKILL was originally based on a flavor of Lisp called “Franz Lisp” created at UC Berkeley by the students of Professor Richard J. Fateman.

Charmian London

In 1877, after her mother died when she was six years old, Charmian's father sent her to Berkeley, California.

Chiripa

Since 1990 there has been research at Chiripa by the Taraco Archeological Project from the University of California, Berkeley.

Chiura Obata

In 1950, he and his wife moved out of the attic apartment of a friend, purchasing a house in the Elmwood district in Berkeley, where they had lived before the war.

Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve

The name was changed to Claremont by a developer of the nearby Claremont district.

It thus offers direct pedestrian access to the park system, with connections to public transportation, from the lower-lying residential areas of Berkeley and Oakland.

It rises from a height of about 420 ft (130 m) above sea level, just behind the Clark Kerr campus of the University of California, Berkeley to the average 1300 ft (400 m) ridge of the East Bay hills, linking by way of other conserved land belonging to the University and the East Bay Municipal Utility District to other parks such as Tilden Regional Park and Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve.

Collis Birmingham

The 2009 season saw Birmingham break the Oceanian record for the 10,000 m with a run of 27:29.73 minutes in Berkeley, California.

Curtis Jones

In 1991, he left a Master's program at UC-Berkeley to move back to Chicago, releasing his first song ("Coffee Pot" on ClubHouse Records) the same year.

Cy Gonick

Gonick was born in Canada, and attended university at Columbia and Berkeley in the 1960s.

Dave Carpender

Dave Carpender (born 23 January 1950, Berkeley, California, died 26 September 2007) was the guitarist with The Greg Kihn Band from 1976 to 1983.

David MacMillan

MacMillan began his independent research career as a member of the chemistry faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in July 1998.

David V. Mitchell

When Mitchell, an only child, was three, the family moved to Berkeley, where he attended Berkeley High School.

Domestic Partner Task Force

Brougham and Warren, the latter of whom was an employee of University of California, Berkeley, brought their proposals to the City of Berkeley and the University of California.

Don Carpenter

He wrote numerous novels, novellas, short stories and screenplays over the course of a 22-year career that took him from a childhood in Berkeley, California and the Pacific Northwest to the corridors of power and ego in Hollywood.

Edward Jenner Museum

The Edward Jenner Museum in Berkeley, England, is housed in a grade II* listed early 18th century building called the Chantry, famous as the home of Edward Jenner, the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, and now used as a museum.

Elizabeth Farnsworth

She is married to attorney Charles Farnsworth and has two children and two grandchildren, and currently resides in Berkeley, California.

Eric Scott Woods

He was born in Palo Alto, California, and maintained a degree in economics and finance from the University of California, Berkeley.

Erik Erikson

After spending a year observing children on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota, he moved to the University of California at Berkeley; there he affiliated with the Institute of Child Welfare and opened a private practice as well.

Fabiana Masili

Afterwards she started a meteoric international career singing in São Miguel Island (Portugal), in Berkeley (USA) and, finally, in New York (USA).

Frederic L. Paxson

Frederic Logan Paxson (February 23, 1877 in Philadelphia – October 24, 1948 in Berkeley, California) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American historian.

George Holmes Howison

George Holmes Howison was born on November 29, 1834, in Montgomery County, Maryland, and died in Berkeley, California on December 31, 1916.

GRB 110328A

"This is truly different from any explosive event we have seen before," said Joshua Bloom of the University of California at Berkeley, the lead author of the study published in the June 2011 issue of Science.

Harvey Fergusson

Fergusson moved to Berkeley in the early 1940s, where he wrote an autobiographical book, Home in the West: An Inquiry into My Origins. He also returned to the subject of politics, this time as a work of non-fiction, People and Power: A Study of Political Behavior in America. His last two novels, Grant of Kingdom and The Conquest of Don Pedro, dealt with earlier periods in the history of New Mexico.

Henry F. May

Born in Denver, Colorado, he was reared in Berkeley, California and spent a formative year in Europe with his family as the youngest of three children.

Holy Hill

Holy Hill, a hill in Berkeley, California which is the site of a number of seminaries and the library of the Graduate Theological Union

J Street U

In October 2013, J Street U was denied membership to the Jewish Student Union at University of California, Berkeley, for the second time.

Jack Gould

Jack Gould (February 5, 1914, New York, New York – May 24, 1993, Berkeley, California) was an American journalist and critic, who wrote influential commentary about television.

James Tarjan

Tarjan's last competitive tournament was the 1984 U.S. Championship at Berkeley, where he went out in style with a fine tied third, scoring 10.5/17.

James Tramel

Immediately upon his parole, Tramel began serving as an assistant pastor at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Berkeley, California.

Jane Vandenburgh

She is married to Jack Shoemaker, a Berkeley, California, book publisher (North Point Press, Counterpoint) who publishes Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry.

Jean Paul Jacob

He received his electronic engineering degree from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, in Brazil, and his MS and PhD degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from the University of California, at Berkeley, in 1966.

Jean Paul Lemieux

He was raised in Quebec City until 1916, when his family moved to Berkeley, California.

Jelani Gardner

After playing high school basketball at St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California, Gardner played college basketball at the University of California.

Jess Winfield

It has been stated that the modern portion of the novel's plot has been based, in part, on Winfield's years studying Shakespeare in Santa Cruz and Berkeley.

Jesse Reklaw

Reklaw was born in Berkeley, California and grew up in Sacramento, studied at UC Santa Cruz, and completed a master's degree in computer science at Yale University.

Johann Christoph Denner

Only one extant clarinet, owned by the University of California, Berkeley has been attributed to him, and this attribution has been challenged.

John William Gregg

John William Gregg (January 8, 1880, New Hampshire - 1969 Berkeley), was a 20th-century professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

K. P. H. Notoprojo

He moved to Valencia, California in 1971 and taught at the California Institute of the Arts until 1992, in addition to work at University of California, Berkeley, San Jose State University, and many other universities in the US and Canada.

Lorenzo Milam

He got his start in radio volunteering in 1958-1959 at Lew Hill's KPFA in Berkeley, California.

Los Angeles Airways Flight 841

Among those killed was a group of nine vacationers from Ohio; a Hunt-Wesson Foods executive; the mayor of Red Bluff, California; and a University of California, Berkeley professor.

Lynda Myles

She served as director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (1973–1980), director and curator of film at the Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, Senior Vice–President at Columbia Pictures, Commissioning Editor for Drama at the BBC for two years, and as co-Executive Director of the East-West Producers' Seminar from 1990–1994, a training program for young producers in Eastern Europe.

Marcin Tarczyński

In 2010, Tarczynski attended UC Berkeley in Berkeley, California, where he majored in molecular biology, and played for the California Golden Bears swimming and diving team under head coach Dave Durden.

Mario Báncora

Thanks to the intervention of the American scientist Ernest Lawrence, Báncora was able to remain in the US after completing his studies and ended up at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was appointed member of the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory (currently known as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).

Mastotermes electromexicus

The amber specimens, a soldier, an imago and twelve nymphs are currently housed in the fossil collection of the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California.

Matmos

Daniel successfully defended his dissertation on the literary cult of melancholy, directed by Janet Adelman at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University.

Mohammad-Javad Larijani

He later continued his studies outside Iran, in the Ph.D. program in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mount Mazama

Much of what is known of Mazama's geology comes from a study by Howel Williams of the University of California, Berkeley and later, from USGS geologist Charles R. Bacon who expanded and modified Williams' work.

Mountain Vista Governor's School

Top acceptances for the Class of 2011 have included Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Washington University in St. Louis, Vanderbilt University, University of California, Berkeley, Tufts University, and Purdue University.

Nice Work

Morris Zapp makes a cameo appearance in the last part of Nice Work, to add a plot twist where he tries to arrange for Robyn to have a job interview at his American university, Euphoric State (a fictionalized UC Berkeley), in order to stop his ex-wife from being a candidate for an open faculty position.

Nikolay Chernetskiy

He trained at Armed Forces sports society in Moscow and set his personal best (46.67 s) in the 400 metres on 1978-07-07 at a meet in Berkeley, California.

Onward State

Pitted against Onward State were seasoned blogs from UC Berkeley, Vassar, Wesleyan, Columbia, Georgetown, Middlebury, Yale, and an Ivy League conglomerate.

Ornithidium donaldeedodii

Ornithidium donaldeedodii is a species of orchid "discovered" in April 2010 when DNA analysis showed that a wrongly labeled orchid at the University of California Botanical Garden in Berkeley, California, was actually a distinct new species.

Pacific Steel

The Pacific Steel Casting Company is a steel foundry in West Berkeley, California, founded in 1934.

Pat Schneider

Schneider was educated at Central College in Missouri, and earned her MA from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California.

Peaceful Warrior

Set at U.C. Berkeley, the film stars Scott Mechlowicz as a troubled but talented gymnast who meets a spiritual guide.

Purushottama Bilimoria

He is a Chancellor's Scholar and Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

QUEL query languages

It was created as a part of the Ingres DBMS effort at University of California, Berkeley, based on Codd's earlier suggested but not implemented Data Sub-Language ALPHA.

Ralph Paffenbarger

Paffenbarger spent time at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as adjunct professor of epidemiology, before joining the faculty at the Stanford School of Medicine in 1977.

Rami Zur

He was born in Berkeley, California and is Jewish on his biological mother's side; he was later adopted and raised by an Israeli Jewish couple.

Recovery-oriented computing

Recovery-oriented computing (sometimes abbreviated to ROC) is a method constructed at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley for developing reliable Internet services.

Reinhard Bendix

He then taught for a year in the Sociology Department of the University of Colorado before moving to the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1947 where he remained for the rest of his career.

Ridwan Kamil

Excelling in undergraduate studies, he continued to study for a Master of Urban Design at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley.

Roy Campanella II

In 2004, Campanella was named general manager of Pacifica radio station, KPFA in Berkeley, California.

Sandra M. Schneiders

Sandra Marie Schneiders, I.H.M. (born 12 November 1936), is professor emerita in the Jesuit School of Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

Sather

It originated circa 1990 at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at the University of California, Berkeley, developed by an international team led by Steve Omohundro.

Sharing Space

The "bodies upon the gears" speech at the beginning of "The Movie's Over" was a speech given by Mario Savio in 1964 at the University of California, Berkeley.

Sierra National Forest

They both fall in the Pacific southwest Research Station which is based in Berkeley, California.

Stanegarth

The tug used to tow three dredging hoppers, each crewed by two men, on the trip to and from Gloucester to Purton.

Stephen Durham

He was an early member of the gay rights movement and attended the first national lesbian and gay gathering, the West Coast Gay Liberation Conference, which took place in 1969 in Berkeley.

Suriya Jungrungreangkit

Born in Bangkok, he learned at the Triam Udom Suksa School, Phrayathai, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering in 1978.

Tcl

The Tcl programming language was created in the spring of 1988 by John Ousterhout while working at the University of California, Berkeley.

Termitaradus dominicanus

The amber specimen, HE-4-52, is currently housed in the fossil collection of the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California.

TinyOS

TinyOS started as a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley in co-operation with Intel Research and Crossbow Technology, and has since grown to be an international consortium, the TinyOS Alliance.

Vilhelm Wohlert

Wohlert was also an educator, early in his career at University of California, Berkeley, and later for many years as a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

William B. Mahoney

Eventually he moved to Berkeley, California, and finally, in the early 1990s, to Miami, remaining involved with AA—and sponsoring scores of other alcoholics on their road to sobriety—wherever he lived.

Wilson Marcy Powell

Wilson Marcy Powell (July 18, 1903 – March 2, 1974) was an American physicist and a member of the Physics department at the University of California, Berkeley.


A. King Dickson

The three wins were against the University of the Pacific, Santa Clara College, and the San Jose Normal School; the two losses were versus Berkeley and Stanford (1st teams?).

Adam Cornford

A Soldier’s Tale (futuristic comic reworking of the libretto/narrative for the Igor Stravinsky piece, co-authored and performed with Melinda Gebbie and Michael Peppe, together with the Berkeley Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kent Nagano), 1984.

Barbara Berkeley, Viscountess Fitzhardinge

Mary Berkeley (bef. 1671 – 3 June 1741), married Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd of Bearhaven on 27 May 1703 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Church, Covent Garden, London.

Being and Time

Theodore Kisiel, The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993).

Belo Cipriani

Cipriani is also a martial artist and trains Capoeira under Mestre Acordeon (Bira Almeida) in Berkeley; he is one of very few blind Capoeira players in the world.

Berkeley Group

Berkeley Islands, also known as "Berkeley Group", located in Nunavut, Canada

Berkeley Mafia

Out of the Berkeley Mafia group, only Widjojo continued to have a significant influence within government during the post-Suharto Reform era, by becoming an economic advisor to presidents Habibie, Wahid (Gus Dur), and Megawati.

Brian Baumgartner

In addition, Baumgartner performed regionally at the Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Children's Theater Company, and Theatre de la Jeune Lune.

Carl B. Koford

Carl Buckingham Koford (September 3, 1915 in Oakland, California – December 3, 1979 in Berkeley, California) was an American biologist who is known for his research work on the behavior of the California Condor.

Corneliu Coposu

Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism pentru eternitate, Polirom, Iaşi, 2005 ISBN 973-681-899-3 (translation of Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003, ISBN 0-520-23747-1)

David Bromige

Leaving UC-Berkeley A.B.D., (All but dissertation), Bromige took a teaching position in the English Department at Sonoma State University in 1970.

Dorothee Metlitzki

Dorothee Metlitzki (or Devora Metlitsky) (Königsberg, (East Prussia, July 27, 1914 - Berkeley, California, April 14, 2001) was a German born, later American, author and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley and, for most of her career, at Yale University.

Douglass C. Perry

In 2009, He moderated the U.C. Berkeley's Hass School of Business panel, "The Monetization Game" with Ngmoco's CEO Neil Young, co-Founder of Red Octane Kai Huang, and Electronic Arts President of Sports, Peter Moore (business).

Earl Morse Wilbur

Wilbur was the first dean 1904-1910; then president 1911-1931; and until 1934, professor of homiletics and practical theology at the Pacific Unitarian School for Ministry, Berkeley, California of the American Unitarian Association (AUA).

FFS2

FFS2, Unix File System, Berkeley Fast File System, the BSD Fast File System or FFS

Francis K. Shattuck

Shattuck was instrumental in getting the Central Pacific Railroad to construct a branch line into Berkeley in 1876 connecting the community and University of California with the main line and the railroad's ferry to San Francisco.

The principal avenue in the city of Berkeley, Shattuck Avenue, is named for him, as is a smaller street, Kittredge.

Fred Anhalt

Most Anhalt apartments, especially those he built in Seattle's Capitol Hill, Seattle and Queen Anne neighborhoods such as Anhalt Arms (formerly Berkeley Court), feature landscaped interior courtyards.

HMS Berkeley Castle

Two ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Berkeley Castle after Berkeley Castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire.

Hooker Oak

Many of these were given to various institutions, which included the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, the Butte County Historical Society, Bidwell Mansion, Sacramento Valley Museum, Butte College, California State University, Chico, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Kenneth Street, Jr.

The work on berkelium and californium was carried out at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) with Stanley G. Thompson, Glenn T. Seaborg and Albert Ghiorso.

Labor and Employment Relations Association

It originally consisted of about 100 researchers (economists; management, human resources, and labor relations researchers; attorneys, historians and sociologists) from 30 universities, including California-Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Illinois, Massachusetts (several campuses), MIT, Michigan, Michigan State, Northeastern, Rutgers, Stanford and UCLA, as well as universities in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Lars Svenonius

The other two papers include a characterization of theories having only one countable model, obtained also by the Polish logican Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, and results on prime models, obtained also by Robert Vaught at Berkeley.

Lifespring

Studies commissioned by Lifespring in the 1980s by researchers at Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF, including Lee Ross, Morton Lieberman, and Irvin Yalom, found that an overwhelming majority of participants in this training called it either "extremely valuable" or "valuable" (around 90%).

Lisa Law

She and her husband, Tom Law, whom she met in 1965 at a Peter Paul & Mary concert in Berkeley, CA, lived together on a farm in Truchas, New Mexico for 12 years and had four children, Dhana Pilar, Solar Sat, Sunday Peaches & Jesse Lee Rainbow.

Loni Hancock

Serving as mayor for two terms, she balanced seven straight city budgets, forged a historic agreement between the city and the University of California, began the revitalization of downtown Berkeley, led efforts to secure additional open space and launched a Bio-Tech Academy at Berkeley High School (in partnership with Bayer).

Lucy Ward

Lucy Ward Stebbins (1880–1955), Dean of Women at University of California, Berkeley

Mario Radovan

He was a visiting scholar at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal in the year 1985/86; he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholarship for academic year 1997/98, which he spent at the University of California at Berkeley.

Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems

Bill Godbout Electronics in Oakland, CA was the parts supplier to many of the hobbyists and students from Berkeley.

Montagu House, Portman Square

Occupying a site at the northwest corner of the square, in the angle between Gloucester Place and Upper Berkeley Street, it was built for Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, a wealthy widow and patroness of the arts, to the design of the neoclassicist architect James Stuart.

Motherpeace Tarot

It was created in the late 1970s by two women from Berkeley, California, Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble.

Plotosaurus

Originally named Kolposaurus (meaning "bay lizard") by Berkeley paleontologist Charles Lewis Camp in 1942, it was changed to Plotosaurus in 1951 when Camp discovered the name had already been assigned to a type of nothosaur.

Robert Cornog

During World War II, Cornog designed magnetic equipment for ships and went to work on the Manhattan Project, successively at UC Berkeley, Princeton University and in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Robin Winks

He was the Randolph Townsend Professor of History at Yale University and Master of Berkeley College at Yale University.

Rockridge

The Rockridge Institute, a now-defunct progressive think tank formerly located in Berkeley, California

Rosebud Denovo

What Really Killed Rosebud?, Claire Burch, Regent Press Publishers (Berkeley) (2001), ISBN 091614769X

SAPIEN Technologies, Inc.

Group Telein wrote the software in Turbo Pascal, eventually moving their operations from their individual residences to an office in downtown Berkeley, California.

Stege Marsh

The site was polluted by a UC Berkeley Field Station and a Zeneca sulfuric acid manufacturing center.

Timeline of nuclear fusion

- August - Robert J. Burke presents updates to the SPRFD HIF process and Charles Helsley presents the Economics of SPRFD at the 19th International HIF Symposium at Berkeley, California.

Wendy Barker

Her newest book, Nothing Between Us: The Berkeley Years, a novel in prose poems set in Berkeley in the sixties (Del Sol Press, 2009), has been called “unforgettably moving” by Sandra M. Gilbert; “a captivating page-turner” by Alicia Ostriker; and an “exciting tribute to a decade of change” by Denise Duhamel.

William Bialek

After postdoctoral appointments at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands and at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, he returned to Berkeley to join the faculty in 1986.

Zing-Yang Kuo

Kuo was a visiting professor of UC Berkeley, Yale University and the University of Rochester, and a researcher at Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C..