John D. Roberts Lecture
John D. Roberts Lecture
John D. ("Jack") Roberts, was an Institute Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, at Caltech and former provost. He was a pioneer in the field of physical organic chemistry and brought nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to organic chemistry, allowing chemists to determine the structures of complex biological molecules.
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Past Lecturers
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Jean Marie Lehn | Universite Louis Pasteur | May 1, 1998 |
| George M. Whitesides | George M. Whitesides | September 25, 1998 |
| Ahmed H. Zewail | California Institute of Technology | November 2, 1998 |
| Alexander Pines | UC Berkeley | February 16, 2000 |
| Chaitan Khosla | Stanford University | May 8, 2001 |
| Ad Bax | National Institutes of Health | March 1, 2002 |
| Maurice Brookhart | University of North Carolina | May 5, 2003 |
| John Brauman | Stanford University | January 21, 2004 |
| Dieter Seebach | ETH Zürich | February 16, 2005 |
| Chris Walsh | Harvard Medical School | March 9, 2006 |
| Jerrold Meinwald | Cornell University | February 21, 2007 |
| Kenneth Eisenthal | Columbia University | April 1, 2008 |
| François Diederich | ETH Zürich | April 15, 2009 |
| Dinshaw J. Patel | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | May 5, 2010 |
| Timothy Swager | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | May 4, 2011 |
| Robert G. Bergman | University of California, Berkeley | February 15, 2012 |
| Justin Du Bois | Stanford University | May 30, 2013 |
| Samuel H. Gellman | University of Wisconsin-Madison | May 7, 2014 |
| Shana O. Kelley | University of Toronto | November 12, 2014 |
| Paul A. Alivisatos | University of California, Berkeley | March 2, 2016 |
| Kendall N. Houk | University of California, Los Angeles | June 7, 2017 |
| John Martin | Gilead Sciences | May 2, 2018 |
| Harry Gray | California Institute of Technology | May 30, 2019 |
| Peter B. Dervan | California Institute of Technology | November 20, 2019 |
| Squire J. Booker | Pennsylvania State University | November 29, 2023 |
| Neil K. Garg | Univesity of California, Los Angeles | October 8, 2025 |