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.
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Past Speakers
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Veronique Gourverneur | University of Oxford | June 5, 2024 |
| Jeffrey Moore | University of Illinois | May 3, 2023 |
| Geoffrey Coates | Cornell University | March 6, 2019 |
| Melanie S. Sanford | University of Michigan | October 17, 2018 |
| Scott J. Miller | Yale University | February 22, 2017 |
| Benjamin Cravatt | The Scripps Research Institute | March 9, 2016 |
| K. C. Nicolaou | Rice University | March 4, 2015 |
| Dale L. Boger | The Scripps Research Institute | February 26, 2014 |
| David W. C. MacMillan | Princeton University | February 20, 2013 |
| Kevan M. Shokat | University of California, San Francisco | January 25, 2012 |
| Erick M. Carreira | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) | March 23, 2011 |
| Roger Y. Tsien | University of California, San Diego | April 14, 2010 |
| Carolyn Bertozzi | University of California, Berkeley | February 18, 2009 |
| Gregory Fu | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | January 16, 2008 |
| Stephen Buchwald | Stephen Buchwald | March 14, 2007 |
| Andrew Myers | Harvard University | May 17, 2006 |
| Chi-Huey Wong | Scripps Research Institute | May 18, 2005 |
| Laura Kiessling | University of Wisconsin | May 26, 2004 |
| Stuart Schreiber | Harvard University | May 7, 2003 |
| Ryoji Noyori | Nagoya University, Nagoya | May 3, 2002 |
| Larry Overman | University of California, Irvine | May 31, 2001 |
| Eric Jacobsen | Harvard University | January 19, 2000 |
| David Evans | Harvard University | April 22, 1998 |
| Robert Bergman | University of California, Berkeley | March 10, 1997 |
| Thomas Cech | University of Colorado, Boulder | April 24, 1996 |
| Peter Schultz | University of California, Berkeley | May 3, 1995 |
| Barry Sharpless | The Scripps Research Institute | May 11, 1994 |
| Albert Eschenmoser | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) | May 25, 1993 |
| Gilbert Stork | Columbia University | December 9, 1992 |
| Jean-Marie Lehn | Louis Pasteur University | October 26, 1990 |
| Samuel Danishefsky | Yale University | January 11, 1990 |
| Donald Cram | University of California, Los Angeles | May 3, 1988 |
| Ronald Breslow | Columbia University | May 5, 1987 |
| Jerrold Meinwald | Cornell University | April 25, 1986 |
| E. J. Corey | Harvard University | March 1, 1985 |