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usonian

(21,944 posts)
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 01:38 AM Oct 14

University of California sets world record with 🏅🏅🏅🏅 🏅five Nobel Prizes in one week

https://web.archive.org/web/20251011012020/https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/uc-nobel-prizes-record-21094964.php

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/uc-nobel-prizes-record-21094964.php

The University of California made history this week, as its faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes across medicine, physics and chemistry — the most ever awarded to a single institution in one year.

On Monday, Frederick Ramsdell, a UC San Diego and UCLA alumnus, shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for identifying immune system cells that prevent the body from attacking itself — a breakthrough that transformed understanding of autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 diabetes and lupus.

A day later, UC Berkeley emeritus professor John Clarke, UC Santa Barbara professor Michel H. Devoret and UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in physics. 

Then on Wednesday, UC Berkeley chemist Omar Yaghi received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for inventing “metal-organic frameworks,” materials capable of capturing carbon dioxide, storing hydrogen and even harvesting clean drinking water from desert air. 




I happen to like this one. My office was right across from the Campanile. Extended concerts on Friday afternoons.

But not THIS close!


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University of California sets world record with 🏅🏅🏅🏅 🏅five Nobel Prizes in one week (Original Post) usonian Oct 14 OP
Congratulations CA and thank you for your accomplishments... sheshe2 Oct 14 #1
I worked for UC too..amazing accomplishment for America BlueWaveNeverEnd Oct 14 #2
Amazing yankee87 Oct 14 #3
10 campuses usonian Oct 14 #4
Brilliant Accomplishments for Cha Oct 14 #5
Congrats UC! SheltieLover Oct 14 #6
Very proud of my Alma Mater! mnhtnbb Oct 14 #7
Keep seeing this ad on tv. At the end he says "I hate California" IcyPeas Oct 14 #8
Will Trump come down on UC like a ton of bricks in retaliation? Irish_Dem Oct 14 #9
UC 5, Donald Trump 0 tanyev Oct 14 #10
It needs to bring back the Free Speech Movement. Ping Tung Oct 15 #11

sheshe2

(94,565 posts)
1. Congratulations CA and thank you for your accomplishments...
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 01:43 AM
Oct 14

for us and the entire world. Bravo .

Cha

(315,319 posts)
5. Brilliant Accomplishments for
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 03:20 AM
Oct 14

the Nobel Peace Prize Recipients at the University of California! 💙

TY!

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