Clarkson University’s Shipley Distinguished Lectureship Series Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Science

1995 – 1996 1st Shipley Distinguished Lecture Jean‐Marie Lehn, Nobel Laureate Universitè Louis Pasteur Strasbourg; College de France, Paris, France 1. From Matter to Life: Chemistry?! 2. Perspectives in Supra molecular Chemistry: From Molecular Recognition towards Self‐Organization

1996 – 1997 2nd Shipley Distinguished Lecture Sir John Meurig Thomas, FRS University of Cambridge, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge, England 1. Davy and Faraday: A Tale of Contrasting Geniuses 2. Designed Solid Catalysts

1997‐ 1998 3rd Shipley Distinguished Lecture Paul Josef Crutzen, Nobel Laureate Max‐Planck Institute, Mainz, Germany 1. The Antarctic Ozone Hole: A Human Caused Chemical Instability of the Stratosphere 2. The Importance of the Tropics in Atmospheric Chemistry

1998 – 1999 4th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Helmut Ringdorf Institut für Organische Chemie, Mainz, Germany 1. Death of a Tumor Cell: Can We Mimic the Process? 2. Multicompartmentation: A Concept for the Molecular Architecture of Life

1999 – 2000 5th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Carl Djerassi Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA 1. Sex in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction 2. Noble Science and Nobel Lust: Disclosing Tribal Secrets

2000 – 2001 6th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Cherry A. Murray Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovation, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA 1. The Future of Communications 2. Video Microscopy of Colloidal Crystals Updated May 2019

2001 – 2002 7th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Richard R. Ernst, Nobel Laureate ETH Hönggerberg CHI, Zurich, Switzerland 1. Tibetan Painting Art Seen Through the Eyes of a Western Scientist 2. Fascinating NMR Insights with Applications to Chemistry, Biology and Medicine

2002 – 2003 8th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Gabor A. Somorjai University of California, Berkeley, California, USA 1. Surfaces: Favorite Media of Evolution and New Technologies 2. The Evolution of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis from the Time of Langmuir and Taylor to the 21st Century

2003 – 2004 9th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Ivar Giaever, Nobel Laureate Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, , USA 1. The Nobel Prize and the Future of Science 2. Examining Cells in Tissue Culture Using Electrical Means

2004 – 2005 10th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Dr. Paul M. Horn IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA 1. Global Technology Outlook

2005 – 2006 11th Shipley Distinguished Lecture John B. Fenn, Nobel Laureate Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA 1. Electrospray Wings for molecular Elephants 2. Science for Shekels: Salvation or Seduction

2006 – 2007 12th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Sir Harold Kroto, Nobel Laureate Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA 1. Science, Society and Sustainability 2. Architecture in Nanospace

2007 ‐2008 13th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Dr. Michael Kasha Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA 1. The Solar 11‐Year Cycle of Giant proton Storms and Their Geophysical Consequences 2. History, Art, Science and Music of String Instruments

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2008 – 2009 14th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Dr. Jerrold Meinwald Goldwin Smith Professor, , Ithaca, New York, USA 1. Violence, Sex and Drugs in the World of Insects 2. Exploring the Chemistry of Biotic Interactions

2009 – 2010 15th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Richard R. Schrock, Nobel Laureate MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 1. Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen by Molybdenum 2. How Basic Research Led to a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005

2010 – 2011 16th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Martin Chalfie, Nobel Laureate Columbia University, New York, New York, USA 1. The Importance of Nontranslational Research 2. How Do I Feel: Exploring the Molecular Basis of Touch Sensitivity

2011‐ 2012 17th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Sir John Meurig Thomas University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England 1. Sir Humphry Davy: Natural Philosopher, Poet, Man of Action 2. Unpredictability and Chance in Science and Technology

2012 – 2013 18th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Richard N. Zare Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA 1. The Chemistry of Drink 2. Cavity Ring‐Down Spectroscopy: A New Way to Make Ultrasensitive Absorption Measurements

2013 – 2014 19th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Stane Pejovnik University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia 1. European University Reform – Case: University of Ljubljana 2. Nanostructured Electrodes for Modern Li‐ion Batteries

2014 – 2015 20th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureate Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 1. What Was First, the Genetic Code or Its Products? 2. Can Structures Lead to Advanced Therapeutics?

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2015 – 2016 21st Shipley Distinguished Lecture Nenad Ban ETH ZÜRICH, Zürich Switzerland 1. Visualizing the Invisible 2. Beyond the Prokaryotic Ribosome: Structural and Functional Insights into Eukaryotic and Mitochondrial Ribosomes

2016 – 2017 22nd Shipley Distinguished Lecture Michael Grätzel Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Éole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 1. The Magic World of Nanocrystals, from Batteries to Solar Cells 2. The Amazing Rise of Perovskite Solar Cells

2017 – 2018 23rd Shipley Distinguished Lecture M. Stanley Whittingham North East Center for Chemical Energy Storage (NECCES), , Binghamton NY 1. Why Energy Storage? – From Frogs to personal Electronics 2. What are the Chemistry & Materials Challenges Facing Intercalation Reactions in Batteries?

2018‐2019 24th Shipley Distinguished Lecture Elsa Reichmanis Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 1. From Silicon to Plastic: it’s all about surfaces, interfaces and materials chemistry 2. Polymer Fibrils, Transport Pathways and Stretchable Electronics

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