Richard Heck, Chemistry, 2010;[153] Elinor Ostrom, Economic Sciences, 2009;[154] and Randy Schekman, Medicine, 2013.[155] Fifty-two UCLA professors have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, and eleven are MacArthur Foundation Fellows. Mathematics professor Terence Tao

bad House at a university.[144][145] In 1980, three students died in a fire in the original building of the UCLA Chabad House. The present building was erected in their memory. The building, completed in 1984, was the first of many Chabad houses worldwide designed as architectural reproductions of the residence of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York.[144]
Faculty and alumni[edit]

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Fifteen Nobel laureates are associated with UCLA: eight professors[17] and seven alumni.[18] The professors are Lloyd Shapley, Economic Sciences, 2012;[146] Louis Ignarro, Physiology or Medicine, 1998;[147] Paul Boyer, Chemistry, 1997;[148] Donald Cram, Chemistry, 1987;[149] Julian S. Schwinger, Physics, 1965;[150] and Willard Libby, Chemistry, 1960.[151] Two other faculty members winning the Nobel Prize were Bertrand Russell and Al Gore,[152] who had a short stay at UCLA. The alumni Nobel laureates include Richard Heck, Chemistry, 2010;[153] Elinor Ostrom, Economic Sciences, 2009;[154] and Randy Schekman, Medicine, 2013.[155] Fifty-two UCLA professors have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, and eleven are MacArthur Foundation Fellows. Mathematics professor Terence Tao was awarded the 2006 Fields Medal.[156]
Society    Faculty membership
American Academy of Arts and Sciences    120
American Association for the Advancement of Science    114
American Philosophical Society    16
Institute of Medicine    37
National Academy of Engineering    22
National Academy of Sciences    50
National Academy of Education    7
Geography professor Jared Diamond won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for his book Guns, Germs, and Steel.[157] Two UCLA history professors have each won 2008 Pulitzer Prizes for general nonfiction and history. Saul Friedländer, professor of history and noted scholar of the Nazi Holocaust, won the prize for general nonfiction for his 2006 book, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945, and Professor Emeritus Daniel Walker Howe won for his 2007 book, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848.
A number of UCLA alumni are notable politicians. In the U.S. House of Representatives, Henry Waxman ('61, '64) represents California's 30th congressional district and is Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.[158] U.S. Representative Judy Chu ('74) represents California's 32nd congressional district and became the first Chinese American woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 2009.[159] Kirsten Gillibrand ('91) is U.S. Senator from the State of New York and former U.S. Representative for New York's 20th congressional district.[160] UCLA boasts two Mayors of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley (1937-1940), the city's only African-American mayor, and Antonio Villaraigosa ('77), who served as mayor from 2005 to 2013.
Computer scientist Vint Cerf ('70, '72) is Vice Pre

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