The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lectures in Chemistry

1996

Prof.Alexander Pines
Univ. of California, Berkeley

(1) Some Magnetic Moments
(2) Iterative Control of Spins and Vehicles

1995

Prof. Friedrich Hensel
Universitat Marburg

(1) The Liquid-Vapor Phase Transition in Fluid Metals and Semiconductors
(2) Interatomic Interactions and Surface Induced Phenomena in Dense Mercury Vapor

1994

Prof. Graham R. Flemming
Univ. of Chicago

(1) Chemical Dynamics in Solution: Real Time Probing of Nuclear and Electronic Motion
(2) Ultrafast Electron and Energy Transfer - The Elementary Steps in Photosynthesis

1993

Prof. Anatol M. Zhabotinsky
Brandeis University

(1) Wave Propagation and Pattern Formation in Nonuniform Reaction-Diffusion Systems
(2) Mechanisms and Modeling of Homogeneous Chemical Oscillators

1993

Prof. Ahmed H. Zewail
Caltech

Femto Chemistry in Cavities

1992

Prof. Richard E. Smalley
Rice University

(1) C₆₀ and the Emerging Carbon-Based Nanotechnology
(2) Grappling with the Beast (of Surface Science)

1991

Prof. Vitali Goldanskii
Academy of Science

Quantum Chemical Reactions at the Deep Cold

1990

Prof. Robert J. Silbey
M.I.T.

(1) Tunneling and Relaxation in Low Temperature Systems
(2) Conjugated Polymers

1989

Prof. Walter D. Knight
Univ. of California, Berkeley

(1) Magic Numbers, Structures and Stability
(2) Giant Resonances and Electron Dynamics

1988

Prof. Harold L. Friedman
SUNY at Stony Brook

(1) Developments in the Theory of the Ferrous-Ferric Electron Exchange in Water
(2) The Dielectric Green's Function Theory of Solvent Effects on Electron Transfer
(3) Ionic Solution Transport Theory and Mixed Electrolytes to Probe Ion-Ion Interactions

1987

Prof. Adam Heller
Bell Laboratories

1) Electrical Communication Between Enzymes and Metal Electrodes
(2) Transparent Metals: Preparation and Characterization of Light Transmitting Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium and Rhenium Films

1986

Prof. Robert G. Shulman
Yale University

(1) Cellular Suspension: E. Coli, Yeast and Tumor Cells
(2) Liver Metabolism
(3) Brain Studies

1986

Prof. George Feher
Univ. of California, San Diego

(1) Bacterial Photosynthesis: Structure and Function of Reaction Centers - I
(2) Bacterial Photosynthesis: Structure and Function of Reaction Centers - II

1985

Prof. Bruce J. Berne
Columbia University

(1) Quantum Molecular Dynamics
(2) Quantum Monte Carlo
(3) Reaction Dynamics

1984

Prof. John B. Fenn
Yale University

(1) Whence the Supersonic Jet Set
(2) The Jet Lag and Leaks as Locks
(3) Crash Landings - Endings as Beginnings

1982

Prof. Andrew Streitweiser
Univ. of California, Berkley

(1) The Electronic Theory of Organic Chemistry
(2) Recent Progress in the Chemistry of Uranocene
(3) Ion Pair Carbo Acidity

1980

Prof. Rudolph A. Marcus
California Institute of Technology

(1) Electron Transfer Reactions in Solutions and at Electrodes 
(2) Intramolecular Energy Transfer and Unimolecular Reactions
(3) Proton Transfer and Related Reactions

In 1997 the Sackler Lectures were renamed "The Jortner Lectures in Chemistry".
Please see the corresponding link for lectures given in this framework

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