2025 – Professor Fraser Stoddart, University of Hong Kong, Northwestern University, University of New South Wales
“Artificial Molecular Machines: From Invention to Implementation”
2023-24 – Professor Juli Feigon, University of California, Los Angeles
“Nucleic Acid Transactions and the Awesome Power of Structural Biology”
2022 – Professor Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Stanford University
“Bringing Chemistry to Life”
2019 – Professor Paul Alivisatos, University of California, Berkeley
“The Nanotechnology Revolution”
2018 – Professor Emeritus Robert Glaeser, UC Berkeley,
“The Revolution in Electron Cryo-Microscopy”
2018 – Nobel Laureate Dr. Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
“The Revolution in Electron Cryo-Microscopy”
2017 – Professor William Gelbart, UCLA
“Viruses, from Self-Assembly to Vaccines”
2016 – Professor Michael Jung, UCLA
“Drug Discovery: From Bench to Market”
2015 – Nobel Laureate Professor Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute Göttingen
“New Physico-Chemical Tools for New Biology”
2014 – Fred Wudl and Linda Wudl, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Organic Materials and their Applications”
2013 – Professor Kendall Houk, UCLA
“Computation and Experiment: Collaborations for Chemical and Biochemical Discovery”
2012 – Nobel Laureate Dr. Harold Varmus, National Cancer Institute
“Can Scientists Make the World a Better Place through Discovery,
Dissemination, and Application of Knowledge?”
2011 – Nobel Laureate Professor Richard Heck, University of Delaware
“The Heck Reaction and Cross-Couplings”
2010 – Professor Robert Tjian, University of California, Berkeley
“Nucleic “Transcription, Stem Cells, and Differentiation” Acid Transactions and the Awesome Power of Structural Biology”
2009 – Professor Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Advanced Materials and Nano-Technology”
2008 – Professor Joan S. Valentine, UCLA
“Frontiers in Metallobiochemistry”
2007 – Dr. R. Stanley Williams, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
“Making and Using Functional Nanostructures”
2006 – Professor David A. Evans, Harvard University
“Frontiers in Chemical Synthesis”
2005 – Professor Ronald M. Evans, Salk Institute
“Nuclear Receptors and the Complex Journey to Obesity”
2004 – Professor David Eisenberg, UCLA
“Interacting Proteins”
2003 – Dr. Ad Bax, NIH
“Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine”
2003 – Professor Alex Pines, UC Berkeley
“Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine
2002 – Nobel Laureate Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University
“The Science and Technology of Nanotubes”
2001 – Dr. James B. Peter, Specialty Laboratories
“Interrogating Cells in Health and Disease”
2000 – Professor Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., UC Berkeley
“Receptors and Human Health”
1999 – Dr. John P. McTague, Ford Research Laboratory
“Transportation & The Environment”
1998 – Nobel Laureate Professor Paul D. Boyer, UCLA
“Life’s Energy Currency: ATP Synthesis and Use”
1997 – Professor Frederick Hawthorne, UCLA
“The Role of Inorganic Chemistry in Medicine”
