List of Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) people

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List of Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) people

The following is a list of individuals associated with Berkeley High School (California) through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.

Peter Apfelbaum
Raymond Burr
Timothy Hutton
Shelley Jackson
Ursula K. Le Guin
Phil Lesh
Billy Martin
Joshua Redman
Rebecca Romijn
Bobby Seale
Kyle Vincent
Thornton Wilder
Bill Woodcock

Notable alumni

Activists

Actors

Artists and photographers

Athletes

Authors, journalists, and poets

Educators

Entrepreneurs

Filmmakers

Mathematicians, scientists and inventors

  • Richard Bolt, 1928, physics professor at MIT with an interest in acoustics; created BBN ("modem" and "e-mail")
  • John Brillhart, 1948, mathematician, author of books on large-number factorization
  • Albert Gjedde 1965, neuroscientist, co-inventor of Gjedde-Patlak plot; McGill University Montreal Canada, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Andrew Gleason (graduated elsewhere), mathematician
  • Sam Ruben, 1931?, co-discoverer of C14, a radioactive isotope of carbon, in 1940; the isotope led to many advances in the fields of biochemistry and medicine as well as its use in carbon dating for archeology
  • Pei-Yuan Wei, 1986, (魏培源, pinyin: Wèi Péiyuán), created ViolaWWW, one of the first graphical web browsers
  • Bill Woodcock, 1989, developed anycast DNS, and built more than 100 Internet exchange points around the world

Media

Musicians

Politicians

Notable faculty

  • Pumpsie Green, first black player for the Boston Red Sox; coached baseball at Berkeley High for many years
  • Edgar Manske, member of the College Football Hall of Fame, former assistant football coach at Cal under Pappy Waldorf; taught biology at Berkeley High for 20 years (1955–1975)

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