University of California – Davis

Recombinant DNA – Herbert Boyer (UC San Francisco) with Stanley Cohen (Stanford)

Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scanning) – Michael Phelps (UC Los Angeles)

Active-X controls for the internet – Michael Doyle (UC San Francisco)

Heterojunctions in semiconductors – Herbert Kroemer (Nobel prize, 2000; UC Santa Barbara)

Crop varieties – oranges, grape rootstocks, strawberries(~ 70% of world’s strawberries are UC-developed) – various (UC Davis and UC Riverside)