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Robert Joseph Birgeneau, a Canadian physicist, is the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, having assumed this position on September 22, 2004. He was the fourteenth president of the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2004. He left the University of Toronto before the end of his seven-year term, causing a flurry of controversy with his abrupt departure. The first from his family to finish high school, Birgeneau graduated from St. Michael's College School in Toronto. He received a B.Sc in mathematics in 1963 from the University of Toronto, where he also met his wife Mary Catherine;[1] they have four children. Birgeneau received his Ph.D in physics from Yale University in 1966. He spent a year each on the faculties of Yale and the University of Oxford. From 1968 to 1975, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He then joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a professor of physics. During his 25 years at MIT, he served as chair of the physics department and then as dean of science. On June 14, 2007, Birgeneau joined the Chancellor of Columbia University in condemning Britain's University and College Union for boycotting Israeli academics and academic institutions and insisting that any boycott include their universities.[2] Citing the "likely" threat to California's academic competitiveness if Proposition 8 were passed, Birgeneau urged the UC Berkeley community to vote against a 2008 state ballot measure which would eliminate the right of gays and lesbians to marry.[3] References
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