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Endowed Lectureships

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Sather Gate, named for pioneer California banker Peder Sather, marks the former south entrance to campus. UC Berkeley photo.

Bayer Lectures in Biochemical Engineering
Berkeley Lectures in Chemical Engineering
Melvin Calvin Lectureship
Cynthia Ann Chan Memorial Lectureship
Clayton C. Heathcock Lectureship
William G. Dauben Memorial 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

Bayer Lecturers in Biochemical Engineering

1996 - Gregory Stephanopoulos
1997 - E. Terry Papoutsakis
1998 - Douglas A. Lauffenburger
1999 - George Georgiou
2000 - Frances Arnold
2001 - Bernhard Palsson
2002 - Linda G. Griffith
2005 - Michael Betenbaugh
2008 - Theodore W. Randolph


Berkeley Lecturers in Chemical Engineering

1985 - Edward E. David, Jr.
1986 - Robert A. Brown
1987 - Richard C. Alkire
1988 - Edward L. Cussler
1989 - John L. Anderson
1990 - Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir 
1991 - Adam Heller
1992 - Edwin N. Lightfoot
1993 - Andreas Acrivos
1994 - Sheldon K. Friedlander
1995 - Matthew Tirrell
1996 - Robert Langer
1997 - Eli Ruckenstein
1998 - John H. Seinfeld
1999 - Rakesh K. Jain
2000 - Klavs F. Jensen
2001 - William B. Russel
2002 - Mark E. Davis
2003 - Pablo G. DeBenedetti
2004 - Alice Gast
2005 - Frances Arnold
2006 - James Dumesic
2007 - Frank Bates
2008 - Jeffrey Siirola

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Melvin Calvin Lecturers
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

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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

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Clayton C. Heathcock Lecture's

2005-2006 (Inaugural Lecture) Professor Anna Mapp, University of Michigan
2006-2007 Professor Thomas R. Hoye, University of Minnesota
2007-2008 Professor Jerrold Meinwald, Cornell University


William G. Dauben Memorial Lecturers
The Dauben Memorial Lectureship has been established through contributions from the friends and former students of Professor Dauben.

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

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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

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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

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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

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George C. Pimentel Lecturers
The George C. Pimentel Memorial Lectureship is sponsored by a grant from IBM.

1991-1992 - William G. Klemperer
1992-1993 - Richard N. Zare
1993-1994 - William C. Lineberger
1994-1995 - Carl Sagan
1995-1996 - Alan Carrington
1996-1997 - Ahmed H. Zewail
1997-1998 - John Simon
1998-1999 - Charles S. Parmenter
1999-2000 - Takeshi Oka
2000-2001 - C. Bradley Moore
2001-2002 - Mario Molina
2002-2003 - Louis Brus
2003-2004 - Wilson Ho
2004-2005 - David King
2005-2006 - Manifred Eigen
2006-2007 - Charles Lieber
2007-2008 - Geri Richmond

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Kenneth S. Pitzer Lecturers
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
1987-1988 John Thomas
1988-1989 J. Peter Toennies
1989-1990 James G. Anderson
1990-1991 Eric Heller
1991-1992 Jürgen Troe
1992-1993 Richard E. Smalley
1993-1994 John A. Pople
1994-1995 Rudolph A. Marcus
1995-1996 Frank H. Stillinger
1996-1997 A. David Buckingham
1997-1998 Harry G. Drickamer
1998-1999 Henry F. Schaefer III
1999-2000 Joshua Jortner
2000-2001 Robin Hochstrasser
2001-2002 Gerhard Ertl
2002-2003 Martin Karplus
2003-2004 David Clary
2004-2005 Mildred Dresselhaus
2005-2006 Mark Ratner
2006-2007 John Tully
2007-2008 Michele Parrinello

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Glenn T. Seaborg Lecturers
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

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