Beckman Lecture
The Beckman Lecture series was established by Professor Peter Dervan in 1985 to honor Dr. Arnold Orville Beckman, Chairman Emeritus of the Caltech Board of Trustees, founder and president of Beckman Instruments, Inc., and nationally recognized inventor, scientist, philanthropist, and business leader. The candidate is selected for their excellence in organic chemistry defined in the broadest sense (synthetic, physical organic, chem biology, organic polymers/materials), by vote of the organic and inorganic faculty of Caltech.
May 13, 2026
4:00 pm
Beckman Lecture
Milan Mrksich,
Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry,
School of Engineering,
Northwestern University,
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| E. J. Corey | Harvard University | March 1, 1985 |
| Jerrold Meinwald | Cornell University | April 25, 1986 |
| Ronald Breslow | Columbia University | May 5, 1987 |
| Donald Cram | University of California, Los Angeles | May 3, 1988 |
| Samuel Danishefsky | Yale University | January 11, 1990 |
| Jean-Marie Lehn | Louis Pasteur University | October 26, 1990 |
| Gilbert Stork | Columbia University | December 9, 1992 |
| Albert Eschenmoser | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) | May 25, 1993 |
| Barry Sharpless | The Scripps Research Institute | May 11, 1994 |
| Peter Schultz | University of California, Berkeley | May 3, 1995 |
| Thomas Cech | University of Colorado, Boulder | April 24, 1996 |
| Robert Bergman | University of California, Berkeley | March 10, 1997 |
| David Evans | Harvard University | April 22, 1998 |
| Eric Jacobsen | Harvard University | January 19, 2000 |
| Larry Overman | University of California, Irvine | May 31, 2001 |
| Ryoji Noyori | Nagoya University, Nagoya | May 3, 2002 |
| Stuart Schreiber | Harvard University | May 7, 2003 |
| Laura Kiessling | University of Wisconsin | May 26, 2004 |
| Chi-Huey Wong | Scripps Research Institute | May 18, 2005 |
| Andrew Myers | Harvard University | May 17, 2006 |
| Stephen Buchwald | Stephen Buchwald | March 14, 2007 |
| Gregory Fu | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | January 16, 2008 |
| Carolyn Bertozzi | University of California, Berkeley | February 18, 2009 |
| Roger Y. Tsien | University of California, San Diego | April 14, 2010 |
| Erick M. Carreira | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) | March 23, 2011 |
| Kevan M. Shokat | University of California, San Francisco | January 25, 2012 |
| David W. C. MacMillan | Princeton University | February 20, 2013 |
| Dale L. Boger | The Scripps Research Institute | February 26, 2014 |
| K. C. Nicolaou | Rice University | March 4, 2015 |
| Benjamin Cravatt | The Scripps Research Institute | March 9, 2016 |
| Scott J. Miller | Yale University | February 22, 2017 |
| Melanie S. Sanford | University of Michigan | October 17, 2018 |
| Geoffrey Coates | Cornell University | March 6, 2019 |
| Jeffrey Moore | University of Illinois | May 3, 2023 |
| Veronique Gourverneur | University of Oxford | June 5, 2024 |