University of California-Berkeley

of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics.
Faculty member Edward Teller was (together with Stanislaw Ulam) the "father of the hydrogen bomb", who laid important foundations for the establishment of Space Sciences Laboratory at Berkeley.
Ernest Lawrence, a Nobel laureate in physics who invented the cyclotron at Berkeley, founded the Radiation Laboratory on campus, which later became the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Gilbert N. Lewis, former dean of the College of Chemistry, was nominated 41 times for Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He mentored and influenced numerous Berkeley Nobel laureates, including Harold Urey (1934 Nobel Prize), William F. Giauque (1949 Nobel Prize), Glenn T. Seaborg (1951 Nobel Prize), Willard Libby (1960 Nobel Prize), and Melvin Calvin (1961 Nobel Prize).
Glenn T. Seaborg, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, discovered or co-discovered ten chemical elements at Berkeley and served as chancellor from 1958 to 1961.
Hans Albert Einstein, the first son of Albert Einstein and a world's leading …