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University of California faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes this year, which is a record.
University of California (San Diego and Los Angeles) alum Frederick J. Ramsdell, along with collaborators in Seattle and Japan, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for identifying the cells that prevent the immune system from attacking the body’s own tissues.
UC Berkeley emeritus professor John Clarke, UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor John Martinis and UC Santa Barbara professor Michel Devoret won the physics prize for experiments that underpin today’s most powerful quantum computers.
UC Berkeley professor Omar Yaghi shared the chemistry prize with scientists in Australia and Japan for creating a new kind of super-absorbent molecular architecture that can clean pollutants from the atmosphere or harvest drinking water from bone-dry desert air.
Since 1934, University of California faculties were being awarded 75 Nobel Prizes.
