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24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
Chancellor of UC Berkeley
Office of the Chancellor
The first Berkeley undergraduate alumnus in generations to lead his own alma mater, guiding Cal with the steady hand of a scholar who first arrived as a student.
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
As Berkeley's chief academic officer he safeguards the teaching and research mission of the whole campus, an economist who now stewards every college at once.
Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair, Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology
Chemistry; Molecular and Cell Biology
Her CRISPR-Cas9 work rewrote what medicine can do and earned the 2020 Nobel Prize, and she has carried it forward with a rare sense of responsibility for how it is used.
James and Neeltje Tretter Chair, University Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
He founded reticular chemistry and built materials that harvest water from desert air, work honored with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, Professor of Physics
Physics
He led the team that discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe, a 2011 Nobel result, and now teaches a whole generation to think scientifically about everything.
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, HHMI Investigator
Molecular and Cell Biology
He mapped how cells package and ship their proteins, a 2013 Nobel discovery, and has been a tireless champion for open science.
Professor of Mathematics
Mathematics
His proof of the monstrous moonshine conjecture won the 1998 Fields Medal, revealing deep and beautiful order hidden inside pure mathematics.
Chancellor's Professor of Economics, Director of the Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality
Economics
His measurements of who earns and owns what changed the global conversation on inequality, work recognized with the John Bates Clark Medal.
Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School, Comparative Literature and Critical Theory
Comparative Literature
Their writing reshaped how a generation thinks about identity, gender, and the ethics of living together, taught with uncommon rigor and care.
Professor of Mathematics
Mathematics
He works at the frontier of the Langlands program and, through Love and Math, invites everyone to feel the beauty mathematicians see.
John Gross Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Political Science
His work on how policies and institutions shape politics over time gave scholars a clearer lens on power, taught with clarity and generosity.
Class of 1950 Professor Emeritus of Economics
Economics
He taught economists to test their beliefs against the real world, and his careful evidence on wages and immigration earned the 2021 Nobel Prize.
E. Morris Cox Professor Emeritus of Economics
Economics
His discrete-choice methods let us model how real people actually decide, a 2000 Nobel contribution used across economics and beyond.
University Professor of Physics, Professor of the Graduate School
Physics
A National Medal of Science physicist whose theories of solids let us predict new materials before making them, and a beloved teacher for sixty years.
Professor Emeritus of English
English
A former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer winner who taught Berkeley how to read a poem closely and love the world more for it.
Preston Hotchkis Professor of History, Emeritus
History
A past president of the Organization of American Historians whose books on American thought and identity taught generations to read their own country more honestly.
Professor of EECS, Smith-Zadeh Chair, Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
He wrote the textbook that taught the world AI, and he has devoted his career to making sure that AI stays firmly under human control.
Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor, EECS and Statistics
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Statistics
He built much of the mathematical foundation under modern machine learning and trained many of the field's leaders with real generosity.
C. Lester Hogan Professor of EECS
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Her ideas on zero-knowledge proofs made trust itself computable, earning the 2012 Turing Award and quietly protecting privacy everywhere.
Dean of the College of Engineering, Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
A co-inventor of the FinFET transistor and Berkeley Engineering's first woman dean, she is shaping both the chips and the engineers of the future.
Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
His work on NP-completeness gave computer science its map of what is hard, honored with the 1985 Turing Award and still taught in every algorithms class.
Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
He coined RISC and helped invent the chip design inside billions of devices, sharing the 2017 Turing Award and mentoring architects the world over.
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
Berkeley Law
One of the most cited constitutional scholars alive, he leads Berkeley Law while still teaching the constitution to anyone who will listen.
Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy
Goldman School of Public Policy
A former U.S. Secretary of Labor who has spent decades making economic policy legible to ordinary people, teaching fairness as a public good.
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