Neil Bartlett Memorial Lectureship
Melvin Calvin Lectureship
Cynthia Ann Chan Memorial Lectureship
William G. Dauben Memorial Lectureship
The Dow Seminars
Clayton C. Heathcock Lectureship
Harold S. Johnston Lectureship
G. N. Lewis Lecturers and Awardees
Earl L. Muetterties Memorial Lectures
George Pimentel Memorial Lectureship
Kenneth S. Pitzer Memorial Lectureship
Glenn T. Seaborg Lectureship
Neil Bartlett Memorial Lecturers
2009-10 - Karl O. Christie
2010-11 - Konrad Seppelt
2011-12 - Thomas Mallouk
2012-13 - Richard Kaner
The Melvin Calvin Lectureship is named after Melvin Calvin, former Professor of Chemistry and Nobel Laureate. The lectureship was established to bring distinguished and internationally renowned scientists to Berkeley for the purpose of developing broad interests in the chemical sciences. The Calvin Lectureship is supported by an endowment from Pfizer, Inc.
| 1984-85 - Geoffrey Eglinton 1985-86 - Koji Nakanishi 1986-87 - Guy Ourisson 1987-88 - Emil T. Kaiser 1988-89 - Christopher T. Walsh 1989-90 - Alan P. Fersht 1990-91 - Peter B. Dervan 1991-92 - Helmut Ringsdorf 1992-93 - Francois Diederich 1993-94 - Wolfgang Roth 1994-95 - Duilio Arigoni 1995-96 - K. Barry Sharpless 1996-97 - Marye Anne Fox 1997-98 - Bernd Giese |
1998-99 - Ryoji Noyori 1999-00 - Roger Tsien 2000-01 - Dieter Seebach 2001-02 - David N. Reinhoudt 2002-03 - Ronald Breslow 2003-04 - K. Barry Sharpless 2004-05 - Kendall Houk 2005-06 - José Barluenga 2006-07 - Herbert Waldmann 2007-08 - Elias J. Corey 2008-09 - Tadhg Begley 2009-10 - Paul Hammond 2010-11 - Thomas Carell 2011-12 - Carolyn Bertozzi 2012-13 - Jon Clardy |
Cynthia Ann Chan Memorial Lecturers
The Cynthia Ann Chan Memorial Lectureship was established through an endowment by Mr. and Mrs. Sun Chan and enhanced by gifts from their children David, Diane, and Sunney Chan. Its purpose is to encourage and promote biological chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. The endowment annually brings to campus a noted scientist who has made an important and original contribution to the fundamental understanding of the chemistry of biological processes at the molecular level.
| 1984 - Sunney I. Chan 1985 - Alexander Rich 1986 - Jeremy R. Knowles 1987 - Thomas R. Cech 1988 - Michael G. Rossman 1989 - Lubert Stryer 1990 - Joanne Stubbe 1991 - Robert Huber 1992 - Robert Sauer 1993 - Martin Karplus 1994 - William P. Jencks 1995 - Alan Fersht 1996 - Hartmut Michel 1997 - Michael A. Marletta 1998 - Gerald F. Joyce |
1999 - Christopher M. Dobson 2000 - Janet Thornton 2001 - Howard C. Berg 2002 - Roderick MacKinnon 2003 - Jack Dixon 2004 - Nigel Unwin 2005 - Jack Szostak 2006 - David Eisenburg 2007 - Sunny Xie 2008 - Roger Kornberg 2009 - Ron Vale 2010 - Ulrich Hartl 2011 - Michael K. Chan 2012 - Christopher T. Walsh 2013 - Jane Clarke |
William G. Dauben Memorial Lecturers
| 1992-93 - William G. Dauben 1993-94 - Nicholas J. Turro 1994-95 - Alan R. Battersby 1995-96 - Steven V. Ley 1996-97 - Jean-Marie Lehn 1997-98 - Hisashi Yamamoto 1998-99 - Francois Diederich 1999-00 - Andrew B. Holmes 2000-01 - Donna G. Blackmond 2001-02 - Manfred T. Reetz |
2002-03 - Erick M. Carreira 2003-04 - Ben L. Feringa 2004-05 - Paul Knochel 2005-06 - Ei-Ichi Nakamura 2006-07 - Mikiko Sodeoka 2007-08 - Ann Weber 2009-10 - Paul Knochel 2010-11 - Max Malacria 2011-12 - Eric Jacobsen 2012-13 - Timothy M. Swager |
Gregory Hillhouse
Clayton C. Heathcock Lecturers
2005-06 (Inaugural Lecture) - Professor Anna Mapp, University of Michigan
2006-07 - Professor Thomas R. Hoye, University of Minnesota
2007-08 - Professor Jerrold Meinwald, Cornell University
2008-09 - Professor David Gin, Sloan Kettering Institute
2009-10 - Professor Hans Reich, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2010-11 - Professor François Diederich, ETH Zurich
2011-12 - Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones, University of Bristol
2012-13 - Professor Veronique Gouverneur, University of Oxford
The Harold S. Johnston Lecturers
The Johnston Lecture is made possible by the generosity of students, colleagues and friends of Professor Johnston.
2001 - Harold S. Johnston
2002 - Yuan T. Lee
2003 - Michael Hoffman
2004 - Jürgen Troe
2005 - James G. Anderson
2006 - Kenneth S. Suslick
2007 - Barbara Finlayson-Pitts
2008 - John Burrows
2009 - James N Galloway
2010 - John Seinfeld
2011 - Margaret Tolbert
2012 - Alan Heeger
2013 - Roy Gordon
G.N. Lewis Lecturers and Awardees
The G.N. Lewis Lecture was established through an endowment by Dr. George
A. Linhart and supported by the Ford Motor Company.
| 1954 - Henry Eyring 1955 - Saul Winstein 1956 - Glenn T. Seaborg 1957 - Henry Taube 1958 - Kenneth S. Pitzer 1959 - Bruno H. Zimm 1960 - William F. Giauque 1961 - Samuel I. Weissman 1962 - Melvin Calvin 1963 - Jacob Bigeleisen 1964 - Leo Brewer 1965 - John Chipman 1966 - George C. Pimentel 1967 - George H. Cady 1968 - Robert E. Connick 1969 - Harrison Shull 1970 - Andrew Streitwieser, Jr. 1971 - Joel H. Hildebrand 1972 - Lyle H. Jensen 1973 - Neil Bartlett 1974 - William N. Lipscomb 1975 - Harold S. Johnston 1976 - H. S. Gutowsky 1977 - Bruce N. Ames 1978 - John M. Prausnitz 1979 - Roald Hoffmann 1980 - William G. Dauben 1981 - David A. Shirley 1982 - John S. Waugh |
1983 - Michael Kasha 1984 - Yuan T. Lee 1985 - Berni J. Adler 1986 - Edward S. Lewis 1987 - Gabor A. Somorjai 1988 - David H. Templeton 1989 - Sidney W. Benson 1990 - Thomas R. Cech 1991 - Kurt Wuthrich 1992 - Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. 1993 - R. Byron Bird 1994 - Glenn T. Seaborg 1995 - Michael E. Fisher 1996 - Albert Eschenmoser 1997 - Susan Solomon 1998 - Paul J. Crutzen 1999 - Robert S. Langer 2000 - Jack Baldwin 2001 - Michele Parrinello 2002 - John T. Yates, Jr. 2003 - Harry Gray 2004 - David A. Tirrell 2005 - Martin Karplus 2006 - Richard Schrock 2007 - Allen J. Bard 2008 - Alan Fersht 2009 - Jean-Marie Lehn 2010 - Ahmed Zewail 2011 - Jean Fréchet 2012 - Mostafa A. El-Sayed |
Earl L. Muetterties Memorial Lecturers
The Berkeley Chemistry Department gratefully acknowledges the financial support of students, colleagues, friends and industrial sponsors whose generous contributions have made the Earl Muetterties Visiting Scholars Program a reality.
Professor Harry B. Gray, California Institute of Technology
Professor Richard H. Holm, Harvard University
Professor Henry Taube, Stanford University
Professor Alan M. Sargeson, Australian National University
Professor Ronald M. Gillespie, McMaster University
Professor Dr. Karl Wieghardt, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Professor Stephen J. Lippard, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Professor James L. Dye, Michigan State University
Professor Francis J. DiSalvo, Cornell University
Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Université Louis Pasteur
Professor Richard R. Schrock, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Professor Ivano Bertini, University of Florence
Professor Arndt Simon, Max-Planck-Institut, Stuttgart
Professor Oliver Kahn, University of Bordeaux
Professor Dante Gatteschi, University of Florence
Professor Reinhard Nesper, ETH Zürich
Professor Konrad Seppelt, Free University of Berlin
Professor Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo
Professor Dieter Fenske, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Professor Hansgeorg Schnoeckel, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Professor Daniel Nocera, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Professor Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University, Japan
Professor Michael Graetzel, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Professor Gérard Férey, Universite de Versalles Sant Quentin en Yvelines, France
Professor Cynthia Friend, Harvard University
Professor Kimoon Kim, Pohang University of Science & Technology, Korea
Professor Dongyuan Zhao, Fudan University
Professor Jean-Marie Tarascon, University of Picardie, France
The George C. Pimentel Memorial Lectureship is sponsored by a grant from IBM.
| 1991-92 - William G.
Klemperer 1992-93 - Richard N. Zare 1993-94 - William C. Lineberger 1994-95 - Carl Sagan 1995-96 - Alan Carrington 1996-97 - Ahmed H. Zewail 1997-98 - John Simon 1998-99 - Charles S. Parmenter 1999-00 - Takeshi Oka 2000-01 - C. Bradley Moore 2001-02 - Mario Molina |
2002-03 - Louis Brus 2003-04 - Wilson Ho 2004-05 - David King 2005-06 - Manifred Eigen 2006-07 - Charles Lieber 2007-08 - Geri Richmond 2008-09 - Sumio Iijima 2009-10 - Dudley Herschbach 2010-11 - Robin Hochstrasser 2011-12 - Robert W. Field 2012-13 - Ann McDermott |
The Kenneth S. Pitzer Lectureship was established in the Department of Chemistry through the generosity of ICI. The annual lectureship was created to bring to the department internationally distinguished physical chemists for the purpose of encouraging and stimulating interest in this field.
| 1987 - Kenneth Pitzer 1987-88 - John Thomas 1988-89 - J. Peter Toennies 1989-90 - James G. Anderson 1990-91 - Eric Heller 1991-92 - Jürgen Troe 1992-93 - Richard E. Smalley 1993-94 - John A. Pople 1994-95 - Rudolph A. Marcus 1995-96 - Frank H. Stillinger 1996-97 - A. David Buckingham 1997-98 - Harry G. Drickamer 1998-99 - Henry F. Schaefer III |
1999-00 - Joshua Jortner 2000-01 - Robin Hochstrasser 2001-02 - Gerhard Ertl 2002-03 - Martin Karplus 2003-04 - David Clary 2004-05 - Mildred Dresselhaus 2005-06 - Mark Ratner 2006-07 - John Tully 2007-08 - Michele Parrinello 2008-09 - Jens K. Nørskov 2009-10 - Daan Frenkel 2010-11 - Axel Becke 2011-12 - Bruce J. Berne 2012-13 - Lena Cederbaum |
Sponsored by ExxonMobil. The idea for the Lectureship
was initiated by Dr. William C. Baird Jr., of
the Exxon Baton Rouge Laboratory, for the purpose
of bringing to the Berkeley campus an internationally
acclaimed inorganic chemist to give lectures and
to talk with students and faculty over the course
of a week.
| Edward I. Solomon, Stanford University Malcolm L. H. Green, Oxford University Hans-H. Brintzinger, Universitat Konstanz Wolfgang A. Herrmann, TU-München Ernesto Carmona, Universidad Sevilla Warren R. Roper, University of Auckland Robin N. Perutz, University of York Hubert Schmidbaur, TU-München Tobin J. Marks, Northwestern University Jean-Marie Basset, University of Lyon Antonio Togni, ETH-Zürich Claudio Bianchini, ISSECC-Firenze Bruno Chaudret, LCC-CNRS, Toulouse Odile Eisenstein, Universite Montpellier Martyn Poliakoff, University of Nottingham Peter Maitlis, University of Sheffield Dermot O'Hare, Oxford University Chi-Ming Che, University of Hong Kong Pekka Pyykkö, University of Helsinki Peter Sadler, University of Warwick, United Kingdom Michael George, Nottingham University, United Kingdom Sylviane Sabo-Etienne, CNRS France Christophe Copéret, ETH Zurich Vivian W.W. Yam, University of Hong Kong |