http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Sat, 18 May 2013 20:48:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/09/nobelist-in-physics-got-his-start-at-berkeley/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/09/nobelist-in-physics-got-his-start-at-berkeley/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:50:09 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33182 An American physicist who shared today's Nobel Prize in Physics earned his bachelor of arts degree from UC Berkeley in 1965.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/09/nobelist-in-physics-got-his-start-at-berkeley/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/02/nobel-laureate-and-alum-adam-reiss-to-discuss-dark-energy/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/02/nobel-laureate-and-alum-adam-reiss-to-discuss-dark-energy/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:41:03 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32681 Nobel Laureate and alumnus Adam G. Riess will give a free public talk at UC Berkeley about groundbreaking research on the expansion of the universe and its implications for dark energy. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/02/nobel-laureate-and-alum-adam-reiss-to-discuss-dark-energy/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/11/laser-discoverer-charles-townes-to-receive-first-golden-goose-award/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/11/laser-discoverer-charles-townes-to-receive-first-golden-goose-award/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:39:12 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32897 Charles Townes, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for invention of the laser, will receive an inaugural Golden Goose Award Sept. 13. Presented for the first time this year, the prize honors scientists who received federal funding for seemingly arcane work that turned out to have revolutionary applications.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/11/laser-discoverer-charles-townes-to-receive-first-golden-goose-award/feed/ 0 http://www2.haas.berkeley.edu/Haas/Home/News/Newsroom/2010-2011/120117williamson.aspx http://www2.haas.berkeley.edu/Haas/Home/News/Newsroom/2010-2011/120117williamson.aspx#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:55:29 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=23732 Haas Professor Emeritus Oliver Williamson, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, has been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor of Peru. ]]> http://www2.haas.berkeley.edu/Haas/Home/News/Newsroom/2010-2011/120117williamson.aspx/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/12/13/saul-perlmutter-receives-nobel-prize-in-stockholm/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/12/13/saul-perlmutter-receives-nobel-prize-in-stockholm/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:49:01 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=22152 Saul Perlmutter, UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab physicist, was feted in Stockholm, Sweden, last week before receiving his Nobel Prize medal on Saturday, Dec. 10, during a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Perlmutter shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/12/13/saul-perlmutter-receives-nobel-prize-in-stockholm/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/04/perlmutters-excellent-day/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/04/perlmutters-excellent-day/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:12:36 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=17456 For Berkeley physicist Saul Perlmutter, Tuesday, Oct. 4 began before 3 a.m. with a press call from Sweden, and soon a meaningful moment with his sleepy but excited 8-year-old. Then — quickly and inevitably — came the deluge of phone calls and e-mails, celebratory events and photo ops. And, it goes without saying, a coveted parking pass. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/04/perlmutters-excellent-day/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/04/saul-perlmutter-awarded-2011-nobel-prize-in-physics/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/04/saul-perlmutter-awarded-2011-nobel-prize-in-physics/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:38:59 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=17379 Saul Perlmutter, UC Berkeley professor of physics and LBNL senior scientist, will share the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with two other scientists, including former UC Berkeley postdoc Adam Riess, for their discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. This discovery in 1998 led to the realization that the universe is largely composed of an enigmatic "dark energy."]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/04/saul-perlmutter-awarded-2011-nobel-prize-in-physics/feed/ 0 http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2011/pr11_071.htm http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2011/pr11_071.htm#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:29:48 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=13364 This month, the U.S. Postal Service issued Forever® stamps celebrating the achievements of Nobel Laureate and late UC Berkeley chemist Melvin Calvin and three other scientists. Calvin was the first scientist to trace in detail the process of photosynthesis, for which he won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1961.]]> http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2011/pr11_071.htm/feed/ 0