College of Carnegie Mellon University
The
Mellon College of Science
(MCS) is part of
Carnegie Mellon University
in
Pittsburgh
,
Pennsylvania
,
US
. The college is named for the
Mellon family
, founders of the
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
, a predecessor of Carnegie Mellon University.
The college offers various
bachelor's
,
master's
, and
doctoral degrees
. It also awards the
Dickson Prize in Science
. From 2016 to August 2023, its dean was
Rebecca Doerge
.
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Since August 2023, MCS's interim dean has been Curtis A. Meyer.
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History
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The Mellon College of Science was founded in 1967, when the
Carnegie Institute of Technology
merged with the
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
to form
Carnegie Mellon University
. The scientific faculty and staff of both institutions became part of the new college, then named the Mellon College of Engineering and Science. As the college grew and scientific research advanced, the
Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering
was split off in 1970, and the
Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
split off in 1988.
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Facilities
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The administration of MCS, as well as most of its biological sciences and chemistry faculty and research labs, and the
college's library
, are based in the
Mellon Institute
, which was constructed in 1937. The
neoclassical
building was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
in 1983, and was designated as a
National Historic Chemical Landmark
in 2013 by the
American Chemical Society
.
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The college's physics and mathematical sciences departments are based in Carnegie Mellon's main campus in Wean Hall, a
Brutalist
building constructed in 1971.
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Organization
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The Mellon College of Science houses four
academic departments
:
Chemistry
,
Biological Sciences
,
Physics
, and
Mathematical Sciences
, each of which grants a variety of undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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In addition, the college also oversees or is affiliated with a number of interdisciplinary research centers, including the
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
.
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Notable people
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- Ada Yonath
(
Post-doctoral fellow
, 1969;
Honorary Doctorate in Science and Technology
, 2018), 2009
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
(
Professor
), discoverer of
atom transfer radical polymerization
- Clarence Zener
(Professor, 1968?1993), theoretical physicist, discoverer of
Zener effect
- John Pople
(Professor, 1964?1993) 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Walter Kohn
(Professor, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1950?1960) 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Shafi Goldwasser
(
BS
, 1979; Honorary Doctorate in Science and Technology, 2018) 2012
Turing Award
- Clifford Shull
(BS, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1937) 1994
Nobel Prize in Physics
- Paul Flory
(Executive Director of Research, Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, 1957?1961) 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Otto Stern
(Professor, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1933?1945) 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Clinton Davisson
(
assistant professor
, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1911?1917) 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics
- John Nash
(BS,
MS
, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1948) 1994
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
, inspiration for
A Beautiful Mind
- John L. Hall
(BS, MS,
PhD
, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1956, 1958, 1961) 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Paul Lauterbur
(
research associate
, Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, 1951?1953, 1955?1963) 2003
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
References
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- Fenton, Edwin (2000).
Carnegie Mellon 1900?2000: A Centennial History
. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press.
ISBN
0-88748-323-2
.
- Schaefer, Ludwig (1992).
Evolution of a national research university, 1965?1990 : the Stever administration and the Cyert years at Carnegie Mellon
(1st ed.). Carnegie Mellon University Press.
ISBN
978-0887481178
.
External links
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