| 1941 |
School of Optometry established
at Berkeley. |
| 1943 |
School of Business
Administration established at Berkeley. |
| |
Davis campus taken over by the
Army Signal Corps (1943-45). |
| 1944 |
Santa Barbara
State College became a campus of the University; Clarence L.
Phelps named first provost. |
| |
School of Public Health and School
of Social Welfare established at Berkeley. |
| 1945 |
Clarence A.
Dykstra named provost of the University; College of Engineering
and School of Medicine established at Los Angeles. |
| 1946 |
School of Forestry established
at Berkeley |
| |
J. Harold Williams
named provost at Santa Barbara. |
| |
UC Berkeley professors John H.
Northrop and Wendell M. Stanley receives the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry |
| 1947 |
School of Social
Welfare established at Los Angeles. |
| 1948 |
Clarence A. Dykstra named vice-president
and provost of the University (Los Angeles). |
| 1949 |
Gordon S. Watkins
named first provost at Riverside, five years prior to opening
of the College of Letters and Science. |
| |
School of Law and School of Nursing
established at Los Angeles. |
| |
School of Veterinary
Medicine opened at Davis. |
| |
UC Berkeley professor William
F. Giaque receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
