Robert Birgeneau
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| Robert Joseph Birgeneau | |
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| Image:Robert Birgeneau.JPG Chancellor Birgeneau at the Cal football game, September 15, 2007. Birgeneau typically makes a half time appearance to lead a cheer in the student section. | |
| Born | Toronto, Ontario |
| Residence | Image:Flag of Canada.svg Canada, Image:Flag of the United States.svg U.S., |
| Nationality | Image:Flag of Canada.svg Canadian |
| Institutions | Yale Oxford Bell Labs MIT Toronto Berkeley |
| Alma mater | Toronto Yale |
| Notable prizes | Founders Award of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) |
Robert Joseph Birgeneau, a Canadian physicist, is the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, having assumed this position on September 22, 2004. He was the fourteenth president of the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2004. He left the University of Toronto before the end of his seven-year term, causing a flurry of controversy with his abrupt departure [1].
The first from his family to finish high school, Birgeneau graduated from St. Michael's College School in Toronto. He received a B.Sc in mathematics in 1963 from the University of Toronto, where he also met his wife Mary Catherine; they have four children. Birgeneau received his Ph.D in physics from Yale University in 1966.
He spent a year each on the faculties of Yale and Oxford University. From 1968 to 1975, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He then joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a professor of physics. During his 25 years at MIT, he served as chair of the physics department and then as dean of science.
On June 14, 2007, Birgeneau joined the Chancellor of Columbia University in condemning Britain's University and College Union for boycotting Israeli academics and academic institutions and insisting that any boycott include their universities.[1]
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- ^ Statement from UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau in response to British faculty union's proposed action against Israeli universities. 14 June 2007. http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/06/14_israel.shtml
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| Academic offices | ||
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| Preceded by Robert M. Berdahl | Chancellor of UC Berkeley 2004–Present | Succeeded by Incumbent |
Presidents of the University of Toronto |
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| Strachan · McCaul · Wilson · Loudon · Falconer · Cody · Smith · Bissell · Evans · Ham · Strangway · Connell · Prichard · Birgeneau · Iacobucci (interim) · Naylor |
Categories: Year of birth missing (living people) | Living people | Philosemites | Canadian academics | Canadian educators | Canadian physicists | Members and associates of the United States National Academy of Sciences | Presidents of the University of Toronto | Chancellors of the University of California, Berkeley | University of Toronto alumni | Yale University alumni
