- Robert Birgeneau
Infobox Scientist
name = Robert Joseph Birgeneau
caption = Birgeneau at a UC Berkeley football game, 15 September 2007.
birth_date =
birth_place =Toronto, Ontario ,Canada
nationality =Canada
alma_mater =University of Toronto Yale University
work_institution=Yale University Oxford University
Bell Labs,MIT University of Toronto University of California, Berkeley
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spouse = Mary Catherine
prizes = Founders Award of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
website = [http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/birgeneau/home.htm]
doctoral_students =Robert Joseph Birgeneau, a Canadian physicist, is the ninth chancellor of the
University of California, Berkeley , having assumed this position onSeptember 22 ,2004 . He was the fourteenth president of theUniversity 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 [http://www.thevarsity.ca/media/storage/paper285/news/2004/07/19/News/Birgeneau.BerkeleyBound-694294.shtml?norewrite200607251210&sourcedomain=www.thevarsity.ca] .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; [University of California - UC Newsroom | ROBERT J. BIRGENEAU APPOINTED UC BERKELEY CHANCELLOR. 2004-04-27. [http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/9979] ] they have four children. Birgeneau received his Ph.D in physics fromYale University in 1966.He spent a year each on the faculties of
Yale andOxford University . From 1968 to 1975, he worked at AT&TBell Laboratories . He then joined theMassachusetts 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 ofColumbia University in condemning Britain's University and College Union for boycottingIsraeli academics and academic institutions and insisting that any boycott include their universities. [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]References
External links
* [http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/Birgeneau/home.htm Official site of Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau]
* [http://birgeneau.physics.berkeley.edu Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau's Research Website]
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