Joshua Jortner Distinguished Lectures in Chemistry

updated: 04.02.2024

Year	Speaker	Title
2023	Prof. Michele Parrinello Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy	The Physics of Catalysis
2022	Prof. David Leigh Manchester University	Much Ado about Knotting
2017	Prof. Omar M. Yaghi Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, United States	RETICULAR CHEMISTRY: THE ATOM, THE MOLECULE, THE FRAMEWORK
2016	Marsha I. Lester Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, USA	EXPLORING UNCHARTED REGIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC REACTION PATHWAYS
2015	Prof. Ben L. Feringa Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials & Center for Systems Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh, Groningen, The Netherlands	(1) CONTROLLING CHIRAL SPACE IN ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS (2) THE ART OF BUILDING SMALL from molecular switches to molecular motors
2013	Prof. Wilson Ho Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University of California Irvine, USA	(1) Visualization and Control of Chemistry with Ångström Resolution (2) The Inner Machinery of Single Molecules: Resolving the Unresolved with High Spectral Resolution STM
2012	Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA	(1) Macromolecular Engineering for Nanostructured Materials (2) Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization from Mechanisms and Synthesis to Materials and Applications
2010	Prof. Richard P. Van Duyne	(1) Molecular Plasmonics: Nanoscale Spectroscopy and Sensing (2)Pushing the Limits: Single Molecule and Single anoparticle Spectroscopy
2009	Prof. Louis Brus Columbia Univesity, New York	(1) Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots (2) Optical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and Single Sheet Graphenes
2009	Prof. Barry M. Trost Stanford University, California	(1) Chemistry and Biology: Merging Sciences (2) On Inventing Reactions for Atom Economy
2008	Prof. Mark Ratner Northwestern University	(1) Energy and Nanoscience: A Marriage of Necessity (1) Molecular Transport Structure: Elastic Scattering, Vibronic Effects and Beyond
2007	Prof. K. C. Nicolaou Scripps and UCSD	(1) Molecules That Changed The World (2) Chemistry, Biology and Medicine of Natural Products
2006	Prof. Tobin J. Marks Northwestern University	Self-Assembly Chemistry for Molecular-Based Organic and Organo-Metallic Electronics
2005	Prof. George M. Whitesides Harvard University	(1) Reinventing Chemistry (2) Dynamic Self-Assembly, Complexity, and Emergence
2004	Prof. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Nobel Laureate College de France and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris	(1) Manipulating Atoms with Light (2) Recent experiments with metastable helium atoms
2003		Jortner Fest Celebrating Joshua Jortner's 70th Birthday
2002	Prof. Adrian Parsegian National Institute of Health	(1) Life in Liliput or How the Big Molecules Are Controlled by the Small (2) Quantum Electrodynamics for the People! Van Der Waals Forces From Different Perspectives
2001	Prof. Jan Peter Toennies Max-Planck-Institut fuer Stroemungsforschung, Goettingen	(1) Chemistry and Superfluidity of Molecules Coralled and Cooled in He Droplets (2) Diffraction of Matter Waves from Nanostructures: New Physics and Novel Applications
2000	Prof. Gary Posner The Johns Hopkins University	(1) Malaria Chemotherapy: Applications of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry (2) Steroid Hormones: Chemical Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of New Vitamin D Analogs
1999	Prof. R. Stephen Berry Univ. of Chicago	(1) Topographies and Dynamics in Ever So Many Dimensions: Clusters and Proteins (2) Chaos, Ergodicity and Regularity in Few-Body Systems, Especially in Phase Changes and Reactions
1997	Prof. John M. Deutch M.I.T.	(1) Managing Global Warming (2) Dynamic Catalysis
In 1997 the Sackler Lectures were renamed "The Jortner Lectures in Chemistry". Please see the corresponding link for lectures given in this framework