Brainy Bay Area Yields 3 Nobels Do The Math: Three World-Class Research institutions - Stanford University, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) And University of California, Berkeley (CAL) Reside Within A 50-Mile Radius

Three Nobel Prizes in three days -- not a bad haul for Bay Area science. Stanford University professors Andrew Fire and Roger Kornberg and UC Berkeley’s George Smoot this week became the latest in a long line of brilliant winners affiliated with universities in the region.