University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher and clergyman George Berkeley, it is the first land-grant university of the state and the founding campus of the University of California system. It has an enrolment of more than 45,000 students and is organised around fifteen schools of study on one campus, including the College of Chemistry and the College of Engineering. It manages the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the United States Department of Energy, and it was a founding member of the Association of American Universities. For the technology atlas it is the institution where the Dutch-American engineer and sculptor Alexander Weygers pursued his career as a teacher.