Robert Nisbet Ph.D. (1913 - 1996)

Nisbet eqrned his Ph.D. in 1939 from Berkeley. After serving in the Army where he fought in Europe, he founded the Department of Sociology at Berkeley, and was briefly Chairman. He left Berkeley in 1953 to become dean at the University of California, Riverside, and later Vice-Chancellor. He remained in the University of California system until 1972, when he left for the University of Arizona at Tucson. Soon thereafter, he was appointed to the prestigious Albert Schweitzer Chair at Columbia.