美国加州大学伯克利分校（ University of California at Berkeley ） 是一所研究型综合性大学，因公办性质（即属于州立大学）而使其本科教育的质量受到影响，但是该校的研究生教育质量则相当高。根据美国国家研究委员会（ National Research Council ）公布的结果，加州大学伯克利分校 在研究生综合培养质量方面位列美国首位。在教师竞争力和所取得的科研成就方面，该校 36 个研究领域中有 35 个均排在全美高校的前 10 名，尤其是化学学科长时间占据第一的位置。迄今为止，加州大学伯克利分校已有 21 名教师荣获诺贝尔奖（包括华裔科学家李远哲 (Yuan T. Lee) 教授和朱棣文 (Steven Chu) 教授），而其培养的学生中则有 25 人摘得诺贝尔奖桂冠。此外，还许多教师获得过有影响力的其它奖项。 我有幸在这所名校做过博士后，师从于二位世界顶级催化专家美国工程院院士 Alexis T. Bell 教授和 Enrique Iglesia 教授，亲身感受到美国院士那种执着的科研精神，受益匪浅。记得我的一位美国同事对我说，你在校园里常能看到一些老头和老太太拎着学术包，说不定几年以后他们或她们成为诺贝尔奖获得者。这所大学的许多教师都担任了众多权威学术期刊的主编、副主编或编委，在其研究领域都是世界闻名的。我国的大学应该好好地学习人家的办学经验，着力培养和建立高水平的教师队伍，为在我国建成若干所像 UC Berkeley 这样具有如此高学术水平的高等院校而努力。 以下为该校的系在全美高校的排名、教师所获得的各种荣誉以及 25 名获得诺贝尔奖的校友。 （以下数据摘自 http://www.berkeley.edu/about/rank.shtml ） Table 1 ． Rankings by department Arts Humanities Art History 3rd Classics 2nd Comparative Literature 10th English 1st, tie French 7th German 1st Music 3rd Philosophy 4th Spanish Portuguese 9th Biological Sciences Biochemistry Molecular Biology 4th Ecology, Evolution, Behavior 8th Molecular/General Genetics 10th Neurosciences 9th Engineering Biomedical Engineering 8th Chemical Engineering 3rd Civil Engineering 2nd Electrical Engineering 4th Industrial Engineering 2nd Materials Science 4th Mechanical Engineering 3rd Physical Sciences Mathematics Astrophysics Astronomy 3rd Chemistry 1st Computer Sciences 3rd Geosciences 3rd Mathematics 1st, tie Physics 3rd, tie Statistics/Biostatistics 1st, tie / 3rd Social Behavioral Sciences Anthropology 3rd Economics 7th Geography 6th, tie History 2nd Linguistics 6th, tie Political Science 2nd Psychology 9th Sociology 3rd Table 2. National and international awards held by faculty Award Current American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows 213 American Philosophical Society 37 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows 222 A. M. Turing (computing) 3 Fields Medal in Mathematics 3 Fulbright Scholars 74 Guggenheim Fellows 362 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators 14 Institute of Medicine members 11 MacArthur Fellows 30 National Academy of Education 8 National Academy of Engineering 87 National Academy of Sciences 135 National Medal of Science 12 National Poet Laureates 1 National Science Foundation Young Investigators Awards 61 Nobel Prize 8 Polk Award in Journalism 2 Pulitzer Prizes 4 Shaw Prize 3 Sloan Fellows (young researchers) 110 Wolf Prizes in agriculture, mathematics, chemistry, physics, medicine and the arts 4 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 25 UC Berkeley alumni: Physiology or Medicine 1944: Joseph Erlanger , 1895 1952: Selman Waksman , Ph.D. '18 1978: Hamilton Smith , '52 2006: Andrew Z. Fire , '78 2009: Carol Greider , Ph.D. '87 Chemistry 1934: Harold Urey , Ph.D. '23 1949: William F. Giauque , B.S. '20, Ph.D. '22 1951: Glenn T. Seaborg , Ph.D. '37 1960: Willard Libby , B.S. '31, Ph.D. '33 1983: Henry Taube , Ph.D. '40 1986: Yuan T. Lee , Ph.D. '62 1989: Thomas Cech , Ph.D. '75 1993: Kary Mullis , Ph.D. '73 1995: Mario Molina , Ph.D. '72 1996: Robert Curl , Ph.D. '57 2000: Alan Heeger , Ph.D. '61 Physics 1955: Willis Lamb , B.S. '34, Ph.D. '38 1997: Steven Chu , Ph.D. '76 1998: Robert Laughlin , '72 2004: David Gross , Ph.D. '66 2006: John C. Mather , Ph.D. '74 Economics 1980: Lawrence Klein , '42 1993: Douglass North , B.A. '42, Ph.D. '52 2002: Daniel Kahneman , Ph.D. '61 2005: Thomas C. Schelling , B.A. '44
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