<p>Exactly how many Nobel Peace Prizes did Irvine win and in which categories?</p>
<p>Peace prize? Don't know if there's any. I think there was a Nobel winner in Physics and a Nobel winner in Chemistry.</p>
<p>"nobel prize" in a certain subject</p>
<p>not "nobel peace prize", a common mistake, lol</p>
<p>UCI has three - 2 in Chemistry and 1 in Physics</p>
<p>Frederick Reines won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the Neutrino, which is a subatomic particle.</p>
<p>F. Sherwood Rowland won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his work with the ozone layer, including the discovery that CFCs were causing the ozone layer to break down.</p>
<p>Irwin Rose won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004 for his work with the regulatory protein Ubiquitin, which has to do with programmed cell death.</p>
<p>When UCI won the two prizes in 1995, it marked the first time a public university won two Nobel Prizes in two different areas in the same year, and was the second university overall behind Harvard to accomplish that.</p>
<p>ucsd and ucsb have won at least 5 each in the past 10 years. ucsd and ucsb have also had more than one nobel prize winner in a single year. ucsb has done that twice, once in 2000 and again in 2004.</p>
<p>Yeah, 3 nobel prizes isn't impressive because SO many schools have done it. And I didn't say UCI was the ONLY school to win two in a single year, I said they were the first.</p>
<p>everything is relative. in fact 5 UC schools(Berkeley, UCSD, UCLA, UCSF and UCSB) have each won 5 or more nobel prizes, so UCI's 3 nobel prizes isn't impressive. i suppose 3 nobels is impressive compared to UCI's peer schools: CSU Fullerton, LBSU, UCR etc..</p>
<p>Hey, if you get off on bashing UCI then go ahead.</p>
<p>I've only read only negative aspects of UCI, are there any threads that have more positive ones about UCI because I don't want to regret going to this school since this is one of the few UCs I applied for.</p>
<p>kurama: ask coolman25 or casperlovesuc's, they're going to uci. also yackityyack is at uci (he's in the honors program, he chose uci over uc berkeley)</p>
<p>i'm not going to uci (i'm going to ucsb). uci is not for me, but there are a lot of good things about uci:
great school, good academics, getting more selective
nice location, right at newport beach, it's in orange county
nice dorms, and the dorms are named after lord of the rings!</p>
<p>nah UCi is a good school people who talk smack about it are those UCLA and UCB people dont worry its a fine school</p>
<p>I visited the campus last weekend. Wow, what can I say for being an Asian male. There are nothing but fine asian babes and the surroundings are beautiful. No offense, but the people around there looks decent. I got a chance to visit the UCI Centre, OMG Lee's Cafe has the best pastries ever! This one visit is making me lean over UC Davis. I live next to Davis and I never really get the right feelings when I visit that campus every so often.</p>
<p>People just like to bash UCI because it has lot's of Asians (which I don't think is a bad thing, and I'm white anyway, and seriously there are plenty of white folk here too), cause a good chunk of people go home on the weekend, and because they didn't get into UCLA. Get over it. Not everyone goes home on the weekend, especially all the norcal-ers like me, and you can have fun and meet some great people if you allow yourself to. It really is what you make of it. I know that's a really annoying cliche but I think it's pretty true. Anyways, all I can say is that I like it and am glad I'm here.</p>
<p>Choosing to attend UCI was the biggest decision I had to make in my life up until I was 17 and 10 years later I haven't regretted it for a second. I had a lifetime of memories there, got a great education, and my experience there has allowed me to move on to the next phase of my life and education.</p>
<p>As long as you can deal with the lack of college football, you'll be fine.</p>
<p>Yeah I really like college football, which I wish we had, but it's not a big enough deal to make me go to a not as good school and to overlook the money and overall education at UCI. I think that would be kinda foolish. Plus, with grad school, I can get my fill and I won't have conflicting loyalties ;)</p>
<p>yackityack - I hope you know that the college football sucks in the Ivy League...You'll won't get your fill when you're at Harvard Law School ;)</p>
<p>That's why I'm going to Stanford ;) Good football every once in a while and usually pretty good basketball too.</p>
<p>Just get that 170 LSAT and you can write your ticket to wherever you want.</p>
<p>and that high gpa...</p>