51²è¹Ýapp

Select a decade tab to view a list of Danforth Lecturers during that time period. 

Institutional affiliations are relative to the time when the lecturer spoke at 51²è¹Ýapp College. 

2022– , University of California-Irvine

• Public talk: Putting Atoms in their Place One Bond at a Time
• Chemistry Seminar: Lessons from Nature: Incorporating Molecular Complexity within Metal Complexes

2021– , Cornell University

• Chemistry seminar: Energy Conversion and Storage: Novel Materials and Operando Methods
• Scholars' Convocation: The Energy Landscape in the Age of Sustainability

Institutional affiliations are relative to the time when the lecturer spoke at 51²è¹Ýapp College. 

2019– , University at Buffalo, State University of New York

• Scholars’ Convocation: Chemistry: A personal perspective
• Chemistry seminar: Spectroscopy ‘in Silico’

2018– , University of California, Berkeley

• Scholars’ Convocation: Irreproducibility in the Scientific Literature, or How Often Do Scientists Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth?
• Chemistry seminar: Selective Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions in Water-Soluble Host-Guest Supramolecular Systems

2016– ’76, University of Minnesota

• Scholars’ Convocation: Water Sustainability, Can It Be Achieved?
• Chemistry seminar: Environmental Chemical Fate and Impact

2015– , The Scripps Research Institute

• Scholars’ Convocation: Discovery of a New Therapeutic Target in an Academic Setting
• Chemistry seminar: Redesign of Vancomycin for Resistant Bacteria

2014– , University of Nebraska, Lincoln; 2010 President of the American Chemical Society

• Scholars’ Convocation: From Earth’s Atmosphere to Planetary Engineering of Mars: An Adventure in Chemistry
• Chemistry seminar: New Insights into HOCO Radical Chemistry

2013– , University of California, Berkeley

• Scholars’ Convocation: After Science, There’s Laundry
• Chemistry seminar: A Family of Copper Proteins that Perform Oxidative C-H Activation at a Water Interface

2013– , California Institute of Technology

• Scholars’ Convocation: The 21st Century Solar Army
• Chemistry seminar: Electron Flow through Metalloproteins

2011– , Purdue University

• Chemistry seminar: Chemical Analysis in Situ: Operating Rooms, Crime Scenes, Grocery Stores, & Factory Floors

2010– , U. of Oregon

• Scholars’ Convocation: Going Nonlinear to Understand Environmentally Important Processes at Liquid Surfaces
• Chemistry seminar: Oil on Water: Calming the Seas but not the Science

Institutional affiliations are relative to the time when the lecturer spoke at 51²è¹Ýapp College.

2009– , Mass. Inst. of Technology

• Scholars’ Convocation: The quest for earth abundant hydrogen evolution catalysts
• Chemistry seminar: Multi-electron transformations at low-coordinate iron centers

2008– , Calif. Inst. of Technology, in chemistry

• Chemistry seminar: Design of efficient olefin metathesis catalysts
• Scholars’ Convocation: Where fundamental chemistry can take you: Following the Olefin metathesis

2006– , Duke Univ. Medical Center, in chemistry

• Chemistry seminar: Blueprints for Cellular Plumbing System
• Scholars’ Convocation: My Life in Science: From Lake Wobegon to Stockholm
• HHMI Symposium Keynote Lecture: Aquaporin Water Channels — The Nobel Lecture

2004– , Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Scholars’ Convocation: Platinum Complexes: From DNA Damage to Curing Cancer
• Chemistry seminar: Hydrocarbon Oxidation at Non-Heme Iron Centers

2002– , Scripps Research Institute, in chemistry

• Scholars’ Convocation: An Asymmetric Odyssey Leading Back to Its Port of Origin
• Chemistry seminar: Searching for New Reactivity

2001– , California Institute of Technology

• Scholars’ Convocation: Probing the Interface between Solution and Gas Phase: Chemistry in Nano-droplets
• Chemistry seminar: Countering Terrorism: Scientific and Technological Challenges

2001– , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in chemistry

• Scholars’ Convocation: The Antarctic Ozone Hole
• Chemistry seminar: Chemistry on Ice Surfaces

2000– , Harvard University

• Scholars’ Convocation: Science and Technology in Society
• Chemistry seminar: Environmental Surface Chemistry: NO Reduction on Oxidized Molybdenum

Institutional affiliations are relative to the time when the lecturer spoke at 51²è¹Ýapp College.

1999– Doug Blanchard, NASA

• Scholars’ Convocation: (Creation)2: Life on Mars
• Chemistry seminar: Isotopic Dating of Geological Materials

1999– , University of California, Berkeley

1996– ’66, University of California, San Francisco

• Scholars’ Convocation: Computer Modeling in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology: Both Numbers and Beautiful Pictures Give Lots of Insight
• Chemistry seminar: Computer Imaging, Molecular Modeling, and Video Displays

1996– ’55, University of South Florida

• Chemistry seminar: The Chemistry of the Sea
• Scholars’ Convocation: Malthusian vs. Cornucopian Views of the Environment

1995– , Stanford University

• Scholars’ Convocation: Birth Control in the Year 2001
• Chemistry seminar: Science-in-fiction is not Science Fiction — Is it Autobiography?

1993– ’79, University of Colorado

• Scholars’ Convocation: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion at the Ends of the Earth and In Between

1993– , California Institute of Technology

• Scholars’ Convocation: Travels Along the DNA Helix
• Chemistry seminar: Targeting DNA with Transition Metal Complexes

1992– , American Association for the Advancement of Science

• Scholars’ Convocation: Science: Making New Connections

1991– , University of Wisconsin, 2012 President of the American Chemical Society

• Scholars’ Convocation: Enhancing the Quality of Education in America

1990– , University of Chicago

• Scholars’ Convocation: Guiding Policy for a Technological Future

Institutional affiliations are relative to the time when the lecturer spoke at 51²è¹Ýapp College.

1988– ’43, California Institute of Technology

• Scholars’ Convocation: Effects of 7000 Years of Lead Technology on Human Cultures and Health

1987– , Sigma Aldrich Co.

• Scholars’ Convocation: The Bible Through Dutch Eyes

1986– ’70, University of Colorado, in chemistry

• Scholars’ Convocation: Catalysis by RNA

1985– , Allied Chemical

• Scholars’ Convocation: Flexibility of Scientific Dilettantism

1984– , University of California, in chemistry

• Scholars’ Convocation: Energy Agriculture

1983– , Purdue University

• Scholars’ Convocation: The Relative Unimportance of the Invective Effect in Physical Organic Chemistry

1982– , Universal Oil Products, Inc., 1987 President of the American Chemical Society

• Scholars’ Convocation: Science and Society

1981– , Purdue University, in chemistry

• Scholars’ Convocation: From Little Acorns to Tall Oaks - From Boranes through Organoboranes

1980– Thomas Lippincott, University of Arizona

• Scholars’ Convocation: The Boltzmann Distribution

Institutional affiliations are relative to the time when the lecturer spoke at 51²è¹Ýapp College. 

2008– , Calif. Inst. of Technology, in chemistry

• Chemistry seminar: Design of efficient olefin metathesis catalysts
• Scholars’ Convocation: Where fundamental chemistry can take you: Following the Olefin metathesis

2006– , Duke Univ. Medical Center, in chemistry

• Chemistry seminar: Blueprints for Cellular Plumbing System
• Scholars’ Convocation: My Life in Science: From Lake Wobegon to Stockholm
• HHMI Symposium Keynote Lecture: Aquaporin Water Channels — The Nobel Lecture

2002– , Scripps Research Institute, in chemistry

• Scholars’ Convocation: An Asymmetric Odyssey Leading Back to Its Port of Origin
• Chemistry seminar: Searching for New Reactivity

2001– , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in chemistry

• Scholars’ Convocation: The Antarctic Ozone Hole
• Chemistry seminar: Chemistry on Ice Surfaces

1986– ’70, University of Colorado, in chemistry

• Scholars’ Convocation: Catalysis by RNA

1984– , University of California, in chemistry, 1971 President of the American Chemical Society

• Scholars’ Convocation: Energy Agriculture

1981– , Purdue University, in chemistry

• Scholars’ Convocation: From Little Acorns to Tall Oaks — From Boranes through Organoboranes

Institutional affiliations are relative to the time when the lecturer spoke at 51²è¹Ýapp College. 

2016– ’76, University of Minnesota

• Scholars’ Convocation: Water Sustainability, Can It Be Achieved?
• Chemistry seminar: Environmental Chemical Fate and Impact

1996– ’66, University of California, San Francisco

• Scholars’ Convocation: Computer Modeling in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology: Both Numbers and Beautiful Pictures Give Lots of Insight
• Chemistry seminar: Computer Imaging, Molecular Modeling, and Video Displays

1996– ’55, University of South Florida

• Chemistry seminar: The Chemistry of the Sea
• Scholars’ Convocation: Malthusian vs. Cornucopian Views of the Environment

1993– ’79, University of Colorado

• Scholars’ Convocation: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion at the Ends of the Earth and In Between

1988– ’43, California Institute of Technology

• Scholars’ Convocation: Effects of 7000 Years of Lead Technology on Human Cultures and Health

1986– ’70, University of Colorado, in chemistry

• Scholars’ Convocation: Catalysis by RNA