UC Berkeley Department of Chemistry

I have very painful memories of Chemistry and Organic Chemistry labs here, but that is why our Chemistry program is pretty bomb. Especially now that we have green chemistry classes.

Chem dept is, with justification, the best in the US (nay the World!). Top ranked profs, really smart grad students (how they let me in is a wonder) and absolutely the best physical/​lab facilities anywhere. An example is their close collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBL) — where their technicians can make ANYTHING. I needed a copper cylinder with a tiny (2 mm) center core of Tantalum (element 73) with a drilled out center core bore of 1 mm. And they made it! From parts in stock! How many college labs have machine shops who can make that, with Tantalum, in stock?
Plus, their Grad Student Organization is run by geniuses. They figured out that they could get back some of the student dues everyone has to pay, so they did and bought ‘refreshments’ for the Friday seminars (Free Beer! — well at least in the 80’s they had it). If that’s not genius, then I don’t know what is.
So you can read about their professors and Nobel Prizes (I met a few folks with them), but just know that it’s really good for Chemistry, just more than a little intense, too.

You see any other chemistry departments that put their school on the periodic table?
Let X = the number of Berkeley chem professors who are members of the National Academy of Science.
The number of total chemistry professors at most universities is less than X
(Yelp won’t let me use the less than symbol)
Don’t even get me started on Nobel Prizes.