Top research/innovation from UCLA?

Colleges & Universities University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>What are some of the most significant discoveries/top research that came out of UCLA since its creation? I know it could be a collaboration between various universities sometimes, so please list those also. </p>

<p>For instance, the birth of the Internet occurred at Leonard Kleinrock’s laboratory (3420 Boelter Hall) when his host computer became the first node of the Internet in September 1969 and it was from there that he directed the transmission of the first message to pass over the Internet on October 29, 1969. [url=<a href=“Leonard Kleinrock's Home Page”>Leonard Kleinrock's Home Page]source[/url</a>]</p>

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<p>I think they discovered AIDS or something like that</p>

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<p>i wouldn’t be surprised if most of it is in medicine since UCLA has one of the top med. schools in the country (behind UCSF, and JHU, and Harvard) they did the hand transplant thing not too long ago, in addition to helping that paraplegic man walk again.</p>

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<p>I heard they discovered the mechanism behind ATP synthase of the electron transport chain at ucla (some old guy won the nobel prize for it). Correct me if I’m wrong.</p>

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<p>^that is right. Paul Boyer (the person who Boyer Hall is named after) was the one who discovered the ATP synthase mechanism.</p>

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<p>not research, but the founders of blizzard are from UCLA :)</p>

<p>and yeah, Michael S. Gottlieb from UCLA was the first physician to diagnose AIDS.
Another one is Louis Ignarro who discovered the signaling properties of Nitric oxide in mammals (Nobel Prize).</p>

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<p>Somebody should have mentioned Terence Tao :slight_smile: He has won the Fields Medal (equivalent to Nobel Prize in mathematics).</p>

<p>Also, this is not research, but Glenn Seaborg (Nobel Prize winner, the element Seaborgium was named after him) has studied in UCLA as an undergrad, I think. And Richard Heck (2010 Nobel Prize Chemistry winner) got his PhD in UCLA.</p>

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<p>The Viterbi algorithm, one of the workhorse techniques of the signal processing and communications fields, was developed by Andrew Viterbi when he was a professor at UCLA.</p>

<p>The algorithm was discovered when Viterbi was attempting to clarify certain ideas in an information theory class to his students. That makes it doubly cool, since it wasn’t simply a result of private research work, but instead came directly from the classroom.</p>

<p>Viterbi went on to become one of the founders of Qualcomm.</p>

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<p>^That one’s funny since USC has the Viterbi School of Engineering. I hope they weren’t dumb enough to name it after this guy.</p>

<p>Also, another innovation: tuition increases multiple times a year (not really research, but I kinda just had to say it given the news)</p>

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<p>They named it after Viterbi because he was a USC alumn who donated an extremely large sum to his alma matter. And because USC lacks influentially wealthy people to name their schools after so they jumped on this opportunity (that was shameless stab).</p>

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<p>Dunno if this works or not but UCLA professor of law Eugene Volokh writes the highly popular political blog The Volokh Conspiracy.</p>

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<p>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Nobody can be 7’2 and dominant. sorry OP :)))</p>

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<p>Edson Smith and the UCLA math department discovered the largest known prime number in 2008. It has over 11 million digits.</p>