University of California, Berkeley

Founded in 1868

Essene earned his BS in geosciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

Later, he went to the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow before moving back to College of the Holy Cross as an associate professor.

He was on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, between 1952 and 1984

first to the University of Notre Dame, then to Berkeley

Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley

Chair in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley

then moved to University of California, Berkeley

a professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley

After faculty positions at the Courant Institute, NYU, University of California, Berkeley

He retired from Berkeley in 1972

joined the UC Berkeley faculty later that year

she attended graduate school at University of California, Berkeley

postdoctoral studies first at the University of California Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley ETH Zurich

University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CO2 Coalition

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Leipzig University Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology LMU Munich University of California, Berkeley University of Zurich

Princeton University Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research California Institute of Technology University of California, Irvine University of California, Berkeley Harvard University

Duke University Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California, Berkeley

Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Francisco Yale University MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Salk Institute

University of Chicago Cornell University Harvard University Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory University of California, Berkeley

St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, PDMI, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

University of California Berkeley Durham University

University of Manchester University of California, Berkeley Berkeley Radiation Laboratory Science Advisory Committee

University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago Brown University University of Rochester University of Texas at Austin

Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques University of Miami University of California, Berkeley

ETH Zürich University of California, Berkeley The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Institute University of Edinburgh ShanghaiTech University

University of California, Berkeley

Gabor A. Somorjai (May 4, 1935, July 7, 2025) was a Hungarian-born American professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a leading researcher in the field of surface chemistry and catalysis, especially the catalytic effects of metal surfaces on gas-phase reactions ("heterogeneous catalysis").