<p>these elements were discovered at berkeley or by berkeley graduates: astatine, neptunium, plutonium, curium, americium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium, dubnium, and seaborgium… and besides, GN Lewis worked here until he died [the following were named after him: lewis dot-structure… lewis acid/base… he was also guy who made thermodynamics simpler or easier to understand for chemists]… we also had dr calvin, a chemist who made a significant contribution to understanding photosynthesis specially the discovery of Calvin-Benson cycle which should sound familiar from high school bio or ap bio or SAT bio test.</p>
<p>besides, we also have the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science national lab also known as the Lawrence National Lab under Berkeley. Alot of the leading chemists in the US work there. So if research is something you want to do, berkeley would be the right choice.</p>
<p>so as a chem student in berkeley hoping to do research later, i dont regret even a bit choosing Berkeley over UCLA for chem</p>