ernest ritchie lecture program
The Ernest Ritchie Memorial Lecture
Ernest Ritchie, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney from 1967 to 1976, died suddenly on April 8th 1976. He had a long and distinguished career in the Department of Organic Chemistry starting in 1941. Whilst best remembered for his contributions to the chemistry of plant products, his scientific interests embraced other areas, notably synthetic chemistry and biogenesis. Above all, he had remarkable human qualities of honesty, sincerity and kindness and inspired a generation of Australian organic chemists. To commemorate his life and work, the School of Chemistry launched a memorial appeal to support lectures by distinguished visitors to be given at the University of Sydney under the auspices of the Sydney University Chemical Society.
Previous Ritchie Lecturers
| 1977 | Sir John Cornforth (University of Sussex) |
| 1978 | Arthur J. Birch (ANU) |
| 1979 | Phillip R. Jefferies (University of WA) |
| 1980 | Sir Derek H.R. Barton (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| 1981 | Jack E. Baldwin (Oxford) |
| 1982 | Donald J. Cram (UCLA) |
| 1983 | Kurt Mislow (Princeton) |
| 1984 | Elias J. Corey (Harvard) |
| 1986 | Lewis N. Mander (ANU) |
| 1988 | Andrew S. Kende (University of Rochester) |
| 1992 | J. Fraser Stoddart (University of Birmingham) |
| 1998 | Wal C. Taylor (University of Sydney) |
| 2000 | Larry Overman (University of California, Irvine) |
| 2002 | William R. Roush (University of Michigan) |
| 2006 | Professor Andrew Holmes (University of Melbourne) |
| 2011 | Professor Amos B. Smith, III (The University of Pennsylvania) |
| 2012 | Professor Dale Boger (The Scripps Research Institute) |