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Date	1855 - present
Areas Of Involvement	public education
Notable Alumni	Katherine Amelia Towle • Saul Perlmutter • Butler W. Lampson • Owen Chamberlain • Biruté Galdikas • Kimberly Guilfoyle • Russell Westbrook • Ben Shapiro • Arthur Sze • Saint Levant • Jaylen Brown • Ali Wong • Maulana Karenga • Judith Heumann • J. Craig Venter • Steve Wozniak • Pam Grier • Kelly Marie Tran • Michael Milken • Gary Ruvkun • Kary Mullis • Chris Burden • Eric Schmidt • Michael Ovitz • Byron Haskin • Richard Serra • Carol W. Greider • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto • Robert E. Hall • Robert Penn Warren • Susan Wojcicki • Venki Ramakrishnan • John F. Hartwig • Joseph Acaba • Todd Gitlin • Thomas J. Sargent • Thomas Robert Cech • Pablo Jarillo-Herrero • Robert B. Laughlin • Julian Seymour Schwinger • Patty Hearst • Peter Snell • John M. Martinis • Frances Arnold • Diane Johnson • Richard R. Schrock • Andrew Z. Fire • Iva Toguri D’Aquino • Houston A. Baker, Jr. • Thérèse Bonney • Lawrence R. Klein • Charles P. Thacker • William F. Sharpe • Haakon VIII • E. Mavis Hetherington • Carleton Washburne • Richard F. Heck • Fred Ramsdell • Yuan T. Lee • Horace Welcome Babcock
Related People	Clark Kerr • Bill Walton • Mario Savio • I. Michael Heyman • Katherine Amelia Towle • John Wooden • Frederic Ward Putnam • Edward W. Gifford