University of California, San Diego
| University of California, San Diego | |
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| motto | Fiat lux (Eng. "Let there be light") |
| founding | 1960 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | La Jolla , San Diego , CA |
| country |
 United States
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| Chancellor | Pradeep K. Khosla |
| Students | 26,247 |
| Employee | 1,471 ( scientific ) |
| Foundation assets | $ 525 million |
| Networks | AAU , IAU |
| Website | www.ucsd.edu |
The University of California, San Diego ( UCSD ; German University of California, San Diego ) was founded in 1960 and is part of the University of California Association ( UC ). The UCSD is one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Similar to Oxford or Cambridge , the university is divided into individual colleges . The campus is located in La Jolla , an area of San Diego, and is 485 hectares in size. There are currently 26,247 students enrolled here and 1,471 scientists employed. Numerous renowned research institutes such as the Rady School of Management or the Scripps Institution of Oceanography are affiliated with the university .
The university has a budget of $ 1.7 billion (2003). UCSD scientists and alumni have won 20 Nobel Prizes. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities , an association of leading North American universities that has existed since 1900.
history
UCSD is in 13th place worldwide in the current university ranking of Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. Newsweek magazine named UCSD the most exciting place for science in the United States.
Even before the university was founded, San Diego had an important research institute - the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The university was based on this. At first, the UCSD only accepted graduates and was able to develop the undergraduate courses from this small unit. In 1964 there were the first freshmen, in 1974 and 1975 there were the first two Nobel Prizes for Medicines from San Diego, in 1995 the National Research Foundation placed the UCSD in the class of the world-famous American elite universities for the first time in a 700-page report. Today the university has over 26,000 students and is considered particularly excellent in the natural and life sciences. "
Sports
The university's sports teams are the Tritons . The college is a member of the California Collegiate Athletic Association .
Personalities
Current and former professors / research assistants
- Roger Yonchien Tsien - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
- Sydney Brenner - Nobel Prize Physiology / Medicine 2002
- Clive WJ Granger - Nobel Prize in Economics 2003
- Harry M. Markowitz - Nobel Prize in Economics 1990
- Mario José Molina - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995
- George Emil Palade - Nobel Prize Physiology / Medicine 1974
- Harold C. Urey - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934
- Further
- Amy Adler - photo artist
- James Andreoni - economist
- David Antin - poet
- Eleanor Antin - artist
- Geoffrey Burbidge - astrophysicist
- Margaret Burbidge - astrophysicist
- Nancy Cartwright - Philosopher of Science
- Patricia Churchland - Canadian philosopher
- Paul Churchland - Canadian philosopher
- Diana Deutsch - music psychologist
- Carl Henry Eckart - physicist, oceanographer
- Robert Edelman - historian
- Manny Farber - art, film
- Werner Goebel - German microbiologist
- Jean-Pierre Gorin - film
- Walter Heiligenberg - behavioral biologist and neuroethologist
- Geoffrey Hinton - Neural Networks
- Jorge E. Hirsch - argent. Physicist, developed the h-index
- Chalmers Johnson - political scientist
- Philip Kitcher - British philosopher of science
- Regine Kollek - Expert in bioethics
- Reinhard Lettau - German-American writer
- Arend Lijphart - political scientist
- Lev Manovich - media theorist
- Herbert Marcuse - philosopher and sociologist
- N. David Mermin - physicist
- Stanley Miller - biologist and chemist
- Walter Munk - oceanographer and geophysicist
- Tom Murphy - astrophysicist
- Donald Norman - cognitive scientist
- Leslie Orgel - British chemist
- Richard Popkin - philosopher
- VS Ramachandran - psychologist and neuroscientist
- Jef Raskin - computer scientist
- Wallace Sargent - British astronomer
- Walter Savitch - mathematician, computer scientist
- Terrence J. Sejnowski - neuroscientist
- Katrin Sieg - German theater scholar
- John Wixted - psychologist
- Shing-Tung Yau - Chinese mathematician
- Herbert York - nuclear physicist
Graduates
- Bruce Beutler - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011
- Tonegawa Susumu - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987
- Further
- Bill Atkinson - developer at Apple
- James Avery - actor
- Gregory Benford - science fiction writer
- Tim Bollerslev - Danish economist
- David Brin - science fiction writer
- Angela Davis - philosopher, radical activist
- Benicio del Toro - actor (without degree)
- Raymond E. Feist - author
- Alicia Garza - Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement
- Adele Eva Goldberg - Linguist
- Aria Giovanni - model and porn actress
- Mike Judge - writer
- Thomas Osang - economist
- Michael Robertson - Founder of MP3.com, Lindows.com and SIPphone.
- Kim Stanley Robinson - science fiction writer
- Nick Woodman - founder of the GoPro company
- Craig Venter - Biologist (Human Genome Project)
- Vernor Vinge - science fiction writer
ROTC at UCSD
UCSD also offers places to study for students in the Reserve Officer Training Corps of the U.S. Armed Forces .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thank You Video Letter from Chancellor Khosla. In: chancellor.ucsd.edu. University of California, San Diego, June 15, 2018, accessed August 23, 2019 .
- ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed August 23, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.shanghairanking.com/de/ARWU2014.html
- ↑ http://www.shanghairanking.com/de/ARWU2013.html
- ↑ http://nobel.universityofcalifornia.edu/list.html
- ↑ Zeit-Online-Article: US elite universities: Stanford model .
Coordinates: 32 ° 52 '44.7 " N , 117 ° 14' 6.1" W.