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University of California, Berkeley—Berkeley for short.

This university on the west coast of California, United States, would become immensely renowned in later generations, one of the world's foremost institutions.

It had produced remarkable achievements in physics, chemistry, life sciences, computers, and other fields.

Though its name contained the words "branch campus," that was a historical leftover; it was itself an independent university.

But at present, the school was only somewhat famous in chemistry.

That was because Professor Lewis, the current dean of the College of Chemistry and chairman of the Chemistry Department, was one of the founders of chemical thermodynamics.

He had proposed the famous "Covalent Theory," and the renowned "Lewis Structure" was named after him.

In actual history, he received a total of forty-one Nobel Prize in Chemistry nominations.

Unfortunately, he never won.

But that did not affect Lewis's standing in the world of chemistry.

Several of the students he mentored later became titans of the chemistry world as well.

Urey, thirty-five, had earned his doctorate from Berkeley and was currently an associate professor of chemistry at Columbia University.

He received the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering deuterium.

In the Manhattan Project, he was responsible for separating Uranium-235 through gaseous diffusion. (At the time, the United States was simultaneously testing three methods, because no one knew which was best.)

Giauque, thirty-three, had completed both his undergraduate and doctoral studies at Berkeley and was currently a researcher at the university.

He received the 1949 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating an environment with temperatures infinitely close to 0 K.

Libby, twenty, was currently a Berkeley undergraduate.

He received the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating a method of dating through radioactive carbon-14 measurement, hailed as an [archaeological clock].

He took part in the Manhattan Project, assisting Urey