Robert Joseph Birgeneau (born 25 March 1942) is a Canadian physicist educator and university administrator. He is the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and was the fourteenth president of the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2004. He left the University of Toronto before the end of his seven-year term, causing a flurry of controversy with his abrupt departure. He was recommended to the Regents by Robert Dynes.
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Robert Joseph Birgeneau (born 25 March 1942) is a Canadian physicist educator and university administrator. He is the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and was the fourteenth president of the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2004. He left the University of Toronto before the end of his seven-year term, causing a flurry of controversy with his abrupt departure. He was recommended to the Regents by Robert Dynes.
The first from his family to finish high school, Birgeneau graduated from St. Michael's College School in Toronto. He received a B.Sc in mathematics in 1963 from the St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, where he also met his wife Mary Catherine; they have four children. Birgeneau received his Ph.D in physics from Yale University in 1966.
He spent a year each on the faculties of Yale and the University of Oxford. From 1968 to 1975, he worked at AT&T; Bell Laboratories. He then joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a professor of...
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