George Oster

Education

  • B.S. U. S. Merchant Marine Academy
  • Ph.D.  Columbia University
  • Postdoctoral Fellow: University of California, Berkeley, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Positions

  • Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley,
  • Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology and College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley

Honors

  • Sigma Xi Graduate Student Award
  • Atomic Energy Commission Graduate Fellow
  • NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Guggenheim Fellow
  • Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute (twice)
  • Miller Foundation Professor (twice)
  • Oppenheimer Professor, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • MacArthur Foundation Fellow
  • Weldon Memorial Prize, Oxford University
  • National Academy of Sciences (NAS Profile)
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Scientific Advisory Board, Santa Fe Institute