He was a professor of physics at UC Berkeley and the founder of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron.
He was a professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley and the second director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He co-discovered ten elements and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 for his contributions to the synthesis and isolation of transuranium elements.
He was a professor of physics at UC Berkeley and a co-discoverer of the antiproton. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 with Emilio Segrè for their experiment on antiparticles.
He is a professor emeritus of physics at UC Berkeley and a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998 for his explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
He is a professor of physics at UC Berkeley and a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He led one of the two teams that discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe and shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 for this discovery.