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In the 1930s Ernest Lawrence's "Radiation Laboratory" expanded to become a semi-autonomous entity near the Berkeley campus. After World War II, Berkeley Radiation Laboratory activities were primarily supported by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and the laboratory was often counted as a part of the AEC's new system of national laboratories. See Peter Westwick, The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003).

In ACAP, staff at the Radiation Laboratory are generally treated as members of Berkeley's physics department up until Lawrence's death in 1958 (when the lab was renamed after him), but this historical division should be considered otherwise arbitrary. Although the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) staff continued to overlap significantly with the Berkeley physics department, staff that were primarily members of LBL are included on the page for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory after this point.

Department Chairs

1932–1955: Raymond Birge
1955–1962: Carl Helmholz
1962–1965: Burton Moyer
1965–1966: Emilio Segrè
1966–1968: Burton Moyer
1968–1972: George Trilling
1972–1974: Eugene Commins
1974–1978: Geoffrey Chew
1978–1981: David Jackson
1981–1983: Leopoldo Falicov
1984–1986: John Reynolds
1987–1991: Buford Price
1992–1994: Herbert Steiner
1995–2000: Roger Falcone
2000–2004: Christopher McKee
2004–2007: Marjorie Shapiro
2007–present: Frances Hellman

Faculty and Postdocs

1912–1916: Richard Tolman, Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry
1918–1980: Raymond Birge
- 1918–1926: Instructor to Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1926–1955: Professor of Physics
- 1955–1980: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1922–1982: William Giauque
- 1922–1934: Instructor to Associate Professor of Chemistry
- 1934–1962: Professor of Chemistry
- 1962–1982: Emeritus Professor of Chemistry
1926–1929: Oscar Rice
- 1926–1927: Associate in Chemistry
- 1927–1929: NRC Fellow
1926–1929: Samuel Allison
- 1926–1928: Instructor in Physics
- 1928–1929: Assistant Professor of Physics
1927–1928: Joseph Mayer, Assistant
1927–1986: Robert Brode
- 1927–1932: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1932–1967: Professor of Physics
- 1967–1986: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1928–1958: Ernest Lawrence
- 1928–1930: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1930–1958: Professor of Physics
- 1936–1958: Director, Radiation Laboratory
1929–1947: J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 1929–1931: Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1931–1936: Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1936–1947: Professor of Theoretical Physics
1931–1934: M. Stanley Livingston, Research Associate
1932–1934: Wendell Furry, National Research Fellow
1932–1991: Edwin McMillan
- 1932–1934: National Research Fellow
- 1934–1935: Research Associate
- 1935–1936: Instructor in Physics
- 1936–1941: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1941–1946: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1946–1973: Professor of Physics
- 1973–1991: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1934–1938: Robert Serber
- 1934–1936: NRC Fellow in Physics
- 1936–1938: Research Associate
1935–1936: Oscar Rice, Research Associate
1936–1988: Luis Alvarez
- 1936–1938: Assistant in Physics
- 1938–1945: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1945–1978: Professor of Physics
- 1978–1988: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1937–1940: Leonard Schiff
- 1937–1938: NRC Fellow
- 1938–1940: Research Associate in Physics
1937–1999: Glenn Seaborg
- 1937–1939: Research Associate in Chemistry
- 1939–1941: Instructor in Chemistry
- 1941–1945: Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- 1945–1971: Professor of Chemistry
- 1958–1961: Chancellor
- 1971–1999: University Professor of Chemistry
1938–1940: Dale Corson
- 1938–1939: Research Fellow
- 1939–1940: Instructor in Physics
1938–1989: Emilio Segrè
- 1938–1946: Research Associate, Radiation Laboratory
- 1946–1972: Professor of Physics
- 1972–1989: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1939–1941: Julian Schwinger
- 1939–1940: NRC Fellow
- 1940–1941: Research Associate
1940–1941: Isadore Perlman, Upjohn Fellow
1940–1942: Chien-Shiung Wu, Resident Fellow and Lecturer
1940–2003: A. Carl Helmholz
- 1940–1942: Instructor and Physicist, Radiation Laboratory
- 1942–1948: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1948–1951: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1951–1980: Professor
- 1980–2003: Emeritus Professor
1941–1941: Robert Sachs, Research Fellow in Theoretical Physics
1941–1942: Samuel Weissman, NRC Fellow
1943–1958: Herbert York
- 1943–1954: Physicist, Radiation Laboratory
- 1951–1954: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1954–1958: Associate Director, Radiation Laboratory
1945–1951: Wolfgang "Pief" Panofsky
- 1945–1946: Physicist, Radiation Laboratory
- 1946–1948: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1948–1951: Associate Professor of Physics
1945–1951: Robert Serber, Professor of Physics
1945–1974: Isadore Perlman, Associate Professor to Professor of Chemistry
1947–1970: Louis Henyey
- 1947–1948: Assistant Professor of Astronomy
- 1948–1954: Associate Professor of Astronomy
- 1954–1970: Professor of Astronomy
1947–1970: Burton Moyer
- 1947–1949: Lecturer in Physics
- 1949–1954: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1954–1970: Professor of Physics
1948–1949: Marvin "Murph" Goldberger, Physicist, Radiation Laboratory
1948–1950: Geoffrey Chew
- 1948–1949: Theoretical Physicist, Radiation Laboratory
- 1949–1950: Assistant Professor of Physics
1948–1950: Gian Wick, Professor of Physics
1948–2006: Owen Chamberlain
- 1948–1958: Instructor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1958–1989: Professor of Physics
- 1989–2006: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1949–1950: Kenneth Case, Research Associate, Radiation Laboratory
1949–1950: Jack Steinberger, Research Assistant
1949–1951: Kenneth Watson, AEC Fellow, Radiation Laboratory
1950–1951: Tsung-Dao Lee, Research Associate and Lecturer
1950–1952: Harold Brown, Physicist, Radiation Laboratory
1950–1952: Theodore Geballe, Research Associate, Low Temperature Laboratory
1950–1965: William Nierenberg
- 1950–1953: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1954–1965: Professor of Physics
1950–2000: John Reynolds
- 1950–1961: Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
- 1950–1961: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1961–1989: Professor of Physics
- 1989–2000: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1951–1954: Berni Alder, Instructor in Chemistry
1951–1964: Malvin Ruderman
- 1951–1952: Physicist, Radiation Laboratory
- 1953–1964: Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
1951–present: Charles Kittel
- 1951–1978: Professor of Physics
- 1978–present: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1952–1953: Elihu Abrahams, Research Associate in Physics
1952–1954: Richard Arnowitt, Research Associate, Radiation Laboratory
1952–1995: Carson Jeffries
- 1952–1963: Instructor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1963–1995: Professor of Physics
1953–1975: Edward Teller, Professor of Physics
1953–2010: Gerson Goldhaber
- 1953–1964: Acting Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1964–2010: Professor of Physics in the Graduate School
1954–1955: Stanley Deser, Research Associate, Radiation Laboratory
1954–1962: Andreas Acrivos
- 1954–1955: Instructor in Chemical Engineering
- 1955–1959: Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 1959–1962: Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
1955–1957: Frank Stephens, Research Chemist, Radiation Laboratory
1955–1966: Michael Tinkham
- 1955–1957: Research Physicist and Lecturer
- 1957–1966: Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
1955–present: Erwin Hahn
- 1955–1991: Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
- 1991–present: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1956–1957: Jack Sandweiss, Physicist, Radiation Laboratory
1956–present: Herbert Steiner
- 1956–1960: Lecturer
- 1961–1967: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
- 1967–present: Professor to Emeritus Professor of Physics
1957–1981: Kenneth Watson, Professor of Physics
1957–present: Geoffrey Chew
- 1957–1993: Professor of Physics
- 1986–1993: Dean of Physical Sciences
- 1993–present: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1958–1959: James Phillips, NSF Fellow in Physics
1958–1959: Amnon Yariv, Research Associate
1958–1960: Stanley Mandelstam, Assistant Research Physicist
1958–1978: Thomas Everhart, Assistant Professor to Professor of Electrical Engineering
1959–1960: Victor Emery, Harkness Fellow
1959–1960: Donald Langenberg, NSF Fellow
1959–1992: David Shirley
- 1959–1960: Lecturer in Chemistry
- 1960–1992: Assistant Professor to Professor of Chemistry
1959–2013: Donald Glaser
- 1959–1960: Visiting Professor of Physics
- 1960–1964: Professor of Physics
- 1962–1964: Miller Research Biophysicist, Division of Neurobiology
- 1964–1989: Professor of Physics and Molecular Biology, Division of Neurobiology
- 1989–2013: Professor of Molecular Physics and Cell Biology, Divison of Neurobiology
1960–1969: Steven Weinberg, Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
1960–present: George Trilling
- 1960–1964: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1964–1994: Professor of Physics
- 1994–present: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1960–present: Gareth Thomas
- 1960–1966: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
- 1966–2006: Professor of Metallurgy
- 2006–present: Emeritus Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
1960–present: Eugene Commins
- 1960–1969: Assistant to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1969–2005: Professor of Physics
- 2005–present: Professor Emeritus of Physics
1961–1962: Alan Heeger, Research Associate in Physics
1961–1964: John Hopfield, Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
1962–1963: Barry Barish, Research Fellow
1962–1963: Gordon Baym, Lecturer and Assistant Research Physicist
1962–1966: Sheldon Glashow, Associate Professor of Physics
1963–1964: Victor Emery, Visiting Assistant Professor
1963–1965: Alexander Fetter, Miller Research Fellow
1963–present: Stanley Mandelstam
- 1963–1994: Professor of Physics
- 1994–present: Professor Emeritus of Physics
1964–present: Marvin Cohen
- 1964–1966: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1966–1969: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1969–1995: Professor of Physics
- 1995–present: University Professor
1964–present: Yuen-Ron Shen
- 1964–1970: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1970–present: Professor of Physics
1965–1966: Daniel Freedman
- 1965–1966: Research Fellow
- 1965–1966: Instructor
1966–1966: James Bardeen, Post-graduate Research Physicist
1966–1968: Ronald Davidson, Assistant Research Physicist
1966–present: Paul Richards
- 1966–2005: Professor of Physics
- 2005–present: Professor Emeritus of Physics
1967–1968: Joel Appelbaum, Assistant Professor of Physics
1967–present: Charles Townes
- 1967–1986: University Professor
- 1986–present: University Professor Emeritus
1967–present: J. David Jackson
- 1967–1992: Professor of Physics
- 1993–present: Professor Emeritus of Physics
1968–1969: H. Eugene Stanley, Physics Fellow, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
1968–present: John Clarke
- 1968–1969: Postdoctoral Fellow
- 1969–1971: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1971–1973: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1973–2010: Professor of Physics
- 1994–1999: Luis W. Alvarez Memorial Chair for Experimental Physics
- 2010–present: Professor of the Graduate School
1969–1975: John Clauser, Postdoctoral Research Associate
1969–1995: Leopoldo Falicov, Professor of Physics
1969–present: P. Buford Price
- 1969–2001: Professor of Physics
- 1992–2001: Dean of Physical Sciences
- 2002–present: Professor, Graduate School
1971–present: George Smoot, Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
1973–1996: John Holdren
- 1973–1975: Assistant Professor of Energy and Resources
- 1975–1978: Associate Professor of Energy and Resources
- 1978–1991: Professor of Energy and Resources
- 1991–1996: Class of 1935 Professor of Energy and Resources
1974–present: Christopher McKee
- 1974–1978: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
- 1978–present: Professor of Physics and Astronomy
1976–1977: Steven Louie, NSF Fellow
1976–1978: Steven Chu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
1978–1981: Dale Van Harlingen, Research Associate
1980–present: Steven Louie
- 1980–1984: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1984–present: Professor of Physics
1981–present: Bruno Zumino
- 1981–1994: Professor of Physics
- 1994–present: Professor Emeritus of Physics
1981–present: Mary Gaillard, Professor of Physics
1983–1998: Steven Kahn
- 1983–1987: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1987–1990: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1989–1990: Associate Professor of Astronomy
- 1990–1998: Professor of Physics and Astronomy
1983–present: Roger Falcone
- 1983–1988: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1988–1991: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1991–present: Professor of Physics
1986–1991: William Bialek, Assistant Professor of Physics and Biophysics
1986–present: David Chandler, Professor of Chemstry
1987–1989: Lisa Randall, President's Fellow
1987–1993: Saul Perlmutter
- 1987–1988: Postdoctoral Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory
- 1989–1993: Staff Scientist, Center for Particle Astrophysics
1987–1993: Andrew Lange, Assistant Professor of Physics
1988–1991: Christopher Stubbs, Center Fellow, Center for Particle Astrophysics
1988–present: A. Paul Alivisatos
- 1988–1992: Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- 1993–1995: Associate Professor of Chemistry
- 1995–1999: Professor of Chemistry
- 1999–present: Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science, and Larry & Diane Bock Professor of Nanotechnology
1989–1990: Margaret Murnane, Researcher
1990–1997: John Clauser, Research Physicist
1990–2002: J. C. Séamus Davis
- 1990–1993: Postdoctoral Research Associate
- 1993–1997: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1998–2000: Associate Professor of Physics
- 2001–2002: Professor of Physics
1990–present: Marjorie Shapiro
- 1990–1992: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1992–1994: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1994–present: Professor of Physics
1991–2008: Daniel Chemla, Professor of Physics
1991–2012: Stuart Freedman, Professor of Physics
1996–1999: Adam Riess, Miller Fellow
2000–present: Frances Hellman, Professor of Physics
2003–present: Robert Dynes, Professor of Physics
2004–2012: Robert Birgeneau, Chancellor
2004–present: Charles Shank, Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Sciences
2009–present: Wick Haxton, Professor of Physics

PhDs

1901: Frank Ross
1922: William Giauque
1923: Paul Kirkpatrick
1923: Harold Urey
1926: Edward Condon
1926: Oscar Rice
1927: Joseph Mayer
1931: M. Stanley Livingston
1931: John H. Williams
1937: Glenn Seaborg
1938: Dale Corson
1938: Willis Lamb Jr.
1939: Philip Abelson
1940: A. Carl Helmholz
1940: Philip Morrison
1940: Isadore Perlman
1940: Robert R. Wilson
1940: Chien-Shiung Wu
1941: Robert Christy
1943: David Bohm
1949: Theodore Geballe
1949: Herbert York
1950: Keith Brueckner
1951: Roger Batzel
1951: Richard Diamond
1951: Albert Overhauser
1952: Elihu Abrahams
1952: Morrel Cohen
1952: John Foster Jr.
1952: Ernest Henley
1952: Michael May
1953: John Cahn
1954: George Feher
1955: Frank Stephens
1956: John D. Anderson
1956: Jack Sandweiss
1956: Herbert Steiner
1958: Richard Brewer
1958: Edward Knapp
1958: Amnon Yariv
1959: Donald Langenberg
1959: Albert Narath
1959: David Shirley
1960: Donald Ginsberg
1960: Arthur Gossard
1960: Paul Richards
1961: Willis Flygare
1961: Alan Heeger
1961: Stanley Wojcicki
1962: Barry Barish
1963: Guenter Ahlers
1964: Gerald Mahan
1965: Bertrand Halperin
1966: David Gross
1966: John Schwarz
1969: Joel Moss
1969: Charles Shank
1970: Christopher McKee
1972: Stuart Freedman
1974: John Joannopoulos
1974: John Mather
1976: Steven Chu
1976: Steven Louie
1980: Philip Bucksbaum
1980: James Eisenstein
1980: Steven Kahn
1980: Joseph Polchinski
1980: Geraldine Richmond
1982: Jerry Tersoff
1983: William Bialek
1983: Persis Drell
1984: Marjorie Shapiro
1985: John Huth
1986: A. Paul Alivisatos
1986: Saul Perlmutter
1987: Andrew Lange
1989: J. C. Séamus Davis
1989: Margaret Murnane

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