y co-manages three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Natio

Mascot    Oski the BearAffiliations    AAUIARUPacific-12University of CaliforniaWebsite    Berkeley.eduBerkeley Horizontal Logo.PNGThe University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, or simply Cal), is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The university occupies 1,232 acres (499 ha) on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay with the central campus resting on 178 acres (72 ha).[6] Berkeley is the flagship institution...

Read More

Berkeley University of California Berkeley seal.svg Seal of U.C. Berkeley Motto Fiat lux (Latin) Motto in English Let there be

Sport[edit]Some 50 Olympic medal-winners have academic connections with the university, including Sir Matthew Pinsent, quadruple gold-medallist rower.[20][166] Other sporting connections include Imran Khan.[20]Oxford in literature and other media[edit]Main article: University of Oxford in popular cultureOxford University is the setting for numerous works of fiction. Oxford was mentioned in fiction as early as 1400 when Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales referred to a "Clerk [student] of Oxenford". As of 1989, 533 Oxford-based novels had been identified,...

Read More

illiam Walton, James Whitbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber have all been involved with the university. Actors Hugh Grant,[156] Kate Beckinsale,[156] Dudley Moore,[157] Michael Palin,[20] and Terry Jones[158] were undergraduates at the University, as were Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck[20] and filmmakers Ken Loach[159] and Richard Curtis.

iversity and returned for research purposes. Robert Hooke,[20] Edwin Hubble,[20] and Stephen Hawking[20] all studied in Oxford.Robert Boyle, a founder of modern chemistry, never formally studied or held a post within the university, but resided within the city in order to be part of the scientific community and was awarded an honorary degree.[134] Notable scientists who spent brief periods at Oxford include Albert Einstein[135] developer of general theory of relativity and the concept of photons; and Erwin Schrödinger who formulated the Schrödinger...

Read More