the Alexander Memorial lecture program
The Alexander Memorial Lecture
Professor Albert Alexander obtained his BSc at the University of Reading, and his PhD from the University of Cambridge. In 1949 he moved to Sydney to take up the Foundation Chair of Applied Chemistry at what was later to become the University of NSW. In 1957 he moved to the University of Sydney to hold the chair of Physical Chemistry, a position he held until 1970. He was a fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1960. The Alexander Memorial Fund was established in 1978 as a result of an appeal by the University of Sydney and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry).
Previous Alexander Lecturers
| 1981 | J.T.G. Overbeek (Utrecht) |
| 1982 | R.H. Ottewill (Bristol) |
| 1984 | R.K. Iler (E I DuPont de Nemours, Delaware, US) |
| 1986 | D.A. Haydon (Cambridge) |
| 1987 | R.J. Hunter (Sydney) |
| 1988 | B.W. Ninham (ANU) |
| 1991 | T.W. Healy (Melbourne) |
| 1992 | J.N. Israelachvili (U.C. Santa Barbara) |
| 1994 | J. Lyklema (Wageningen) |
| 1997 | G.T. Barnes (Queensland) |
| 1998 | R. Buscall (ICI Technology) |
| 2001 | T. Kunitake (RIKEN) |
| 2003 | M. Almgren (Uppsala) |
| 2005 | John Ralston (U. South Australia) |
| 2007 | Professor Brian Vincent (Bristol) |
| 2009 | Franz Grieser (Melbourne) |
| 2011 | Kazue Kurihara (Tohoku) |