Distinguished Lecture Series



The Department is fortunate to be able to host two endowed distinguished lecture series that bring outstanding chemists to campus for two-day, two-lecture visits. Listed below are descriptions of these series and the speakers who have presented lectures under them.


The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Lectures

Our Dreyfus Lecture series, inaugurated in 1968 and made possible through funding from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, brings distinguished chemists in all areas of chemistry to Dartmouth.

1967

George Hammond

CalTech

1987

Peter Dervan

CalTech

1968

Anthony Turkevich

Chicago

1989

Barry Sharpless

MIT

1969

Frank Westheimer

Harvard

1989

Marye Anne Fox

Texas

1971

Michael Kasha

Florida State

1991

Jacqueline Barton

CalTech

1972

E. Bright Wilson

Harvard

1992

Dudley Herschbach

Harvard

1973

Percy Julian

Julian Research Institute

1993

John Rowlinson

Oxford

1974

Paul Bartlett

Harvard

1994

Robert Grubbs

CalTech

1974

Carl Djerassi

Stanford

1995

Richard Smalley

Rice

1976

Paul Flory

Stanford

1996

Jerrold Meinwald

Cornell

1977

Ronald Breslow

Columbia

1997

Robert Bergman

UC Berkeley

1978

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Oxford

1999

John Bercaw

CalTech

1979

John Pople

Carnegie-Mellon

2000

Kendall Houk

UCLA

1980

Roderick Clayton

Cornell

2001

Richard Saykally

UC Berkeley

1981

Melvin Calvin

UC Berkeley

2002

Malcolm Green

Oxford

1982

Harry Gray

CalTech

2002

Albert Eschenmoser

ETH

1983

Nicholas Turro

Columbia

2004

Sylvia Ceyer

MIT

1984

John Waugh

MIT

2004

Richard Schrock

MIT

1985

Roald Hoffmann

Cornell

2006

Jean-Marie Lehn

Strasbourg

1985

Richard Zare

Stanford

2008

Timothy Lodge

Minnesota

1986

Henry Taube

Stanford


The Robert M. and Martha W. Ross Lectures

Made possible by a generous endowment from Adjunct Professor Robert M. Ross, the Ross Lecture Series brings distinguished lecturers to Dartmouth primarily in the broad areas at the interface of chemistry and biology. Prior to 1998, this series was named The Dartmouth Lectures in Chemistry.

1986

Jack Halpern

Chicago

1998

Edward C. Taylor

Princeton

1987

Edward C. Taylor

Princeton

1999

Christopher Walsh

Harvard

1987

Mark S. Wrighton

MIT

2000

Ralph Hirschman

Penn

1988

Rudolph A. Marcus

CalTech

2001

Joanne Stubbe

MIT

1988

Ralph F. Hirschmann

Penn

2002

Dale Boger

Scripps

1989

Gabor Somorjai

UC Berkeley

2003

Dale Poulter

Utah

1989

Richard V. Wolfenden

UNC Chapel Hill

2004

Stephen J. Lippard

MIT

1990

Bruno H. Zimm

UC San Diego

2005

Gregory L. Verdine

Harvard

1991

Ken A. Dill

UCSF

2006

Stephen J. Benkovic

Penn State

1991

Frank H. Westheimer

Harvard

2006

Robert Grubbs

CalTech

1994

Bejamin Widom

Cornell

2007

Roger Y. Tsien

HHMI

1995

Eric N. Jacobsen

Harvard

1996

William A. Klemperer

Harvard

1997

Maurice Brookhart

UNC Chapel Hill


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