On April 29, 1912, a special Academic Council committee reported favorably on a proposal by President Benjamin Ide Wheeler “to consider the feasibility of establishing at the University a series of lectures for the presentation of results of research at the University of California.” Since then, except during the war year of 1919, the Academic Senate has annually elected one or two faculty members who are distinguished for his/her scholarly research to serve as a Faculty Research Lecturer. A historical list is presented below.
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Faculty Research Lecturer |
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2011 |
Linda Williams, Film Studies and Rhetoric Saul Perlmutter, Physics |
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2010 |
Walter Alvarez, Earth and Planetary Science (watch lecture) Leslie Kurke, Classics and Comparative Literature |
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2009 |
Robert L. Hass, English Michael Levine, Genetics, Genomics, and Development |
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2008 |
Jean M.J. Fréchet, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Daniel Boyarin, Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric |
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2007 |
Martin Jay, History Vaughan F. R. Jones, Mathematics |
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2006 |
Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, Molecular and Cell Biology Barry Stroud, Philosophy |
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2005 |
Judith Butler, Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Gender and Women's Studies John Clarke, Physics and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
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2004 |
Erich S. Gruen, History & Classics David B. Wake, Integrative Biology |
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2003 |
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Medical Anthropology Gabor A. Somorjai, Chemistry |
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2002 |
Robert Tjian, Molecular and Cell Biology |
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Timothy J. Clark, History of Art |
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2001 |
Frank H. Shu, Astronomy |
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Richard Taruskin, Music |
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2000 |
Anthony A. Long, Classics |
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Alexandre Chorin, Mathematics |
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1999 |
Robert L. Middlekauff, American History |
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Randy W. Schekman, Molecular and Cell Biology |
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1998 |
John E. Casida, Chemical and Molecular Entomology |
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Robert B. Alter, Hebrew and Comparative Literature |
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1997 |
Ernst B. Haas, Government |
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Marvin L. Cohen, Physics |
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1996 |
Alexander Pines, Chemistry |
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Stephen Greenblatt, English |
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1995 |
Gene Brucker, History |
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Manuel Blum, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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1994 |
Howard K. Schachman, Molecular and Cell Biology |
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Susan Ervin-Tripp, Psychology |
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1993 |
Yuan T. Lee, Chemistry |
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Sanford H. Kadish, Law |
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1992 |
Frederick C. Crews, English |
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Doris H. Calloway, Nutritional Sciences |
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1991 |
Paul L. Richards, Physics |
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Andrew W. Imbrie, Music |
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1990 |
Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, Greek and Comparative Literature |
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Allan C. Wilson, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
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1989 |
Harold S. Johnston, Chemistry |
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Yakov Malkiel, Linguistics |
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1988 |
Robert Brentano, History |
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Howard A. Bern, Zoology |
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1987 |
John R. Searle, Philosophy |
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H. Bolton Seed, Civil Engineering |
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1986 |
Charles H. Townes, Physics |
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Jonas A. Barish, English |
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1985 |
Bruce N. Ames, Biochemistry |
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Gerard Debreu, Economics and Mathematics |
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1984 |
Edward H. Schafer, Oriental Languages |
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Stephen Smale, Mathematics and Economics |
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1983 |
Elizabeth F. Colson, Anthropology |
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Russell L. DeValois, Psychology |
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1982 |
James Cahill, History of Art |
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Richard M. Karp, Computer Science |
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1981 |
Henry F. May, History |
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John M. Prausnitz, Chemical Engineering |
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1980 |
Czeslaw Milosz, Slavic Languages and Literature |
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Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., Biochemistry |
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1979 |
Erwin L. Hahn, Physics |
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J. Desmond Clark, Anthropology |
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1978 |
Joseph W. Kerman, Music |
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Shiing-shen Chern, Mathematics |
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1977 |
Frank A. Beach, Psychology |
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Ralph Emerson, Botany |
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1976 |
Josephine Miles, English |
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John Verhoogen, Geology and Geophysics |
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1975 |
William J. Bouwsma, History |
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George C. Pimentel, Chemistry |
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1974 |
Daniel Mazia, Zoology |
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John H. Reynolds, Physics |
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1973 |
Walter W. Horn, History of Art |
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Earl R. Parker, Materials Science and Engineering |
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1972 |
Horace A. Barker, Biochemistry |
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Sherwood L. Washburn, Anthropology |
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1971 |
David Blackwell, Statistics |
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1970 |
Francis J. Turner, Geology |
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1969 |
Kingsley Davis, Sociology |
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1968 |
Heinz L. Fraenkel-Conrat, Molecular Biology |
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1967 |
Yuen Ren Chao, Oriental Languages and Literature |
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1966 |
Leo Brewer, Chemistry |
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1965 |
Mary R. Haas, Linguistics |
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1964 |
Curt Stern, Zoology |
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1963 |
Alfred Tarski, Mathematics |
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1962 |
Luis Walter Alvarez, Physics |
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1961 |
Bertrand H. Bronson, English |
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1960 |
Emilio Segré, Physics |
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1959 |
Glenn T. Seaborg, Chemistry |
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1958 |
Stephen C. Pepper, Philosophy |
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1957 |
Melvin Calvin, Chemistry |
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1956 |
Murray B. Emeneau, General Linguistics and Sanskrit |
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1955 |
Edwin M. McMillan, Physics |
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1954 |
Roy E. Clausen, Genetics |
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1953 |
Wendell M. Latimer, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering |
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1952 |
Stuart Daggett, Transportation |
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1951 |
Agnes Fay Morgan, Nutrition |
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1950 |
Griffith C. Evans, Mathematics |
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1949 |
Robert H. Lowie, Anthropology |
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1948 |
William Francis Giauque, Chemistry |
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1947 |
Edward C. Tolman, Psychology |
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1946 |
Raymond T. Birge, Physics |
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1945 |
John S. P. Tatlock, English |
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1944 |
Ernest B. Babcock, Genetics |
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1943 |
Robert J. Kerner, European History |
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1942 |
Dennis R. Hoagland, Plant Nutrition |
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1941 |
Ivan M. Linforth, Greek |
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1940 |
George D. Louderback, Geology |
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1939 |
Henry Frederick Lutz, Egyptology and Assyriology |
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1938 |
Ernest O. Lawrence, Physics |
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1937 |
Karl F. Meyer, Bacteriology |
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1936 |
Joel H. Hildebrand, Chemistry |
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1935 |
Frederick J. Teggart, Social Institutions |
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1934 |
Willis Linn Jepson, Botany |
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1933 |
George P. Adams, Philosophy |
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1932 |
William Hammond Wright, Astronomy |
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1931 |
William A. Setchell, Botany |
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1930 |
William Popper, Semitic Languages |
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1929 |
Samuel J. Holmes, Zoology |
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1928 |
A. L. Kroeber, Anthropology |
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1927 |
Andrew C. Lawson, Geology |
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1926 |
Florian Cajori, Mathematics |
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1925 |
Herbert M. Evans, Anatomy |
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1924 |
Carl C. Plehn, Economics |
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1923 |
George R. Noyes, Slavic Languages |
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1922 |
Charles A. Kofoid, Zoology |
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1921 |
Charles Mills Gayley, English |
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1920 |
Gilbert N. Lewis, Chemistry |
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1918 |
Rudolph Schevill, Spanish Language and Literature |
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1917 |
Herbert E. Bolton, American History |
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1916 |
Frederick P. Gay, Pathology |
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1915 |
A.O. Leuschner, Astronomy |
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1914 |
John C. Merriam, Paleontology |
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1913 |
W. W. Campbell, Astronomy |
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