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Home > Quick Facts > Fact Sheets > Physical Sciences SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES Home to two of UC Irvine’s Nobel Laureates, the School of Physical Sciences offers educational and research opportunities for tomorrow’s scientific work forces through the departments of Chemistry, Earth System Science, Mathematics and Physics & Astronomy. The school gained international prominence in 1995 when professors F. Sherwood Rowland (chemistry) and Frederick Reines (physics) each received the Nobel Prize, making UCI the first public university with faculty receiving Nobel prizes in two different fields in the same year. Research in the school also rates among the nation’s finest in atmospheric chemistry, organic chemistry, geoscience and elementary particle physics. Its researchers play leadership roles in large international particle physics projects, United Nations environmental surveys and in providing the scientific information that assists in the drafting of international treaties. With more than 1,400 undergraduate and graduate students, the school is one of the nation’s largest producers of bachelor’s degree-level graduates, ranking fifth nationally in chemistry and 11th in physics. Doctoral degrees also are granted from all four departments. State-of-the-art multidisciplinary research takes place at the Institute for Surface and Interface Science, the Chemical and Material Physics Program, the Program in Protein Engineering, the Program in Polymer and Material Chemistry, the Center for Interdisciplinary Synthesis and the Center for Global Environmental Change Research. The school also features specialized research facilities for molecular modeling, X-ray crystallography, mass spectrometry, NMR research, pulsed power plasma fusion reactor research and advanced cryogenics. Physical science faculty regularly use internationally known facilities such as the Keck Telescope; Super-Kamiokande (Japan) and AMANDA (Antarctica) neutrino detectors; Fermilab, Los Alamos and Brookhaven National Laboratories; the Chandra Observatory; and the Jet Propulsion Lab. Dean John C. Hemminger Named dean in July 2006, John C. Hemminger is a professor of chemistry and internationally recognized for his research in surface chemistry and physics. Distinctions
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