Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Carolyn Bertozzi and John Clauser — two former Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, scientists— were awarded 2022 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics respectively this week.

As UC Berkeley celebrates its 150th year of admitting female students, it’s important to discuss the presence female scientists have had on campus.

Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson, two of the three recipients of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, were formerly affiliated with UC Berkeley.

The positioning of Alivisatos, who interviewed for the chancellor position, invites the question: Does he want to be UC Berkeley’s next Chancellor?

In 1952, UC Berkeley discarded a presidential system and adopted a chancellorship.